Conveners
DTP Poster Session with beer / Session d'affiches, avec bière DPT
- Svetlana Barkanova (Acadia University)
Mr
Alexandre Landry
(Université de Montréal)
14/06/2016, 19:00
Theoretical Physics / Physique théorique (DTP-DPT)
Poster (Student, In Competition) / Affiche (Étudiant(e), inscrit à la compétition)
Abstract
1. Introduction
2. ULTRA-COLD NEUTRONS IN A GRAVITATIONAL FIELD
3. GRAVITATIONAL PERTURBATION
4. NUMERICAL VALUES AND EXPERIMENTAL POSSIBILITIES
5. Conclusion
6. Acknowledgements
7. References
Prof.
Louis Marchildon
(Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières)
14/06/2016, 19:02
Theoretical Physics / Physique théorique (DTP-DPT)
Poster (Non-Student) / affiche (non-étudiant)
Sixty years ago, Hugh Everett III suggested that when a quantum observable is measured by an apparatus, all possible results of the measurement exist. Many different ways to understand this statement have later been proposed, which roughly fall under the headings of many worlds, many minds and decohering sectors of the wave function. Understanding multiplicity is, in my view, a pressing...
Keith Ng
(University of Waterloo)
14/06/2016, 19:04
Theoretical Physics / Physique théorique (DTP-DPT)
Poster (Student, In Competition) / Affiche (Étudiant(e), inscrit à la compétition)
We show that a particle detector can distinguish the interior of a hollow shell from
at space for switching times much shorter than the light-crossing time of the shell, even though the local metrics are indistinguishable. This shows that a particle detector can read out information about the non-local structure of spacetime even when switched on for scales much shorter than the...
Robert Mann
(University of Waterloo)
14/06/2016, 19:06
Theoretical Physics / Physique théorique (DTP-DPT)
Poster (Non-Student) / affiche (non-étudiant)
Black Hole Chemistry is a new perspective on black hole thermodynamics, one that indicates that once vacuum energy is taken into account, black holes behave more like chemical systems. As a consequence mass becomes chemical enthalpy, the notion of a thermodynamic volume appears, and black holes exhibit a broad range of chemical phenomena, including liquid/gas phase transitions similar to...
Faïza Nebia
(Cégep du Vieux Montréal)
14/06/2016, 19:08
Theoretical Physics / Physique théorique (DTP-DPT)
Poster (Non-Student) / affiche (non-étudiant)
In this work, we study, using numerical -Monte Carlo- simulations, quantum properties of a gas of anyons with a topological-type interaction in finite three dimensional space-time. This model is an effective description of the Abelian Higgs model with the Chern-Simons theories. The effective anyon gas with topological-type interaction is already constructed and developped in the lattice in...
Robert Mann
(University of Waterloo)
14/06/2016, 19:10
Theoretical Physics / Physique théorique (DTP-DPT)
Poster (Non-Student) / affiche (non-étudiant)
Quantum mechanics is often described as "weird" and "strange" because it abandons many of the intuitive traits of classical physics. Specifically, the notion that the world is objective, is deterministic, and exists independent of measurement are basic features of classical theory, but do not always hold up in quantum theory. I point out that these intuitive ideas are actually not genuine...
Nicolas Giasson
(Université Laval)
14/06/2016, 19:12
Theoretical Physics / Physique théorique (DTP-DPT)
Poster (Student, Not in Competition) / Affiche (Étudiant(e), pas dans la compétition)
The origin of neutrinos masses is one of the great mysteries of modern physic. As it turns out, the Standard Model of particle physics cannot account for massive neutrinos. They can only be described as massless Weyl spinors (left handed) due to symmetry constraints. On the other hand, experiments on neutrinos oscillations have provided strong evidence for a non-zero mass, which indicate the...
Valerio Faraoni
(Bishop's University)
14/06/2016, 19:16
Theoretical Physics / Physique théorique (DTP-DPT)
Poster (Non-Student) / affiche (non-étudiant)
We present a Paczynski-Wiita-like pseudo-Newtonian potential describing the orbits of particles in arbitrary static and spherically symmetric spacetimes, including black
hole solutions of alternative theories of gravity. This general prescription differs substantially from a previous one, showing that the association of pseudo-potentials with black hole spacetimes is not unique.
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Todd Sierens
(Perimeter Institute)
14/06/2016, 19:18
Theoretical Physics / Physique théorique (DTP-DPT)
Poster (Student, In Competition) / Affiche (Étudiant(e), inscrit à la compétition)
In this talk we construct a self-consistent holographic model that is used to analyze the dynamical response functions for strongly interacting quantum critical systems described by conformal field theories (CFTs). A relevant scalar operator is incorporated in order to drive a quantum critical phase transition and we study the effect that our model parameters have on the finite temperature...
Mr
Filip Simovic
(University of Waterloo)
14/06/2016, 19:20
Theoretical Physics / Physique théorique (DTP-DPT)
Poster (Student, In Competition) / Affiche (Étudiant(e), inscrit à la compétition)
The anti-de Sitter/conformal field theory correspondence and the membrane paradigm have illuminated many aspects of string and field theory, giving key insights into what a quantum theory of gravity might look like, while also providing tools to study a wide range of strongly coupled systems. In essence, these ideas are a statement of the holographic principle: a fundamental observation about...
