2018 CAP Congress / Congrès de l'ACP 2018

Vortices and the fine structure of quantum light-cones (G)*

11 Jun 2018, 11:15

15m

McCain 2017 (cap.36) (Dalhousie University)

Oral Competition (Graduate Student) / Compétition orale (Étudiant(e) du 2e ou 3e cycle) Theoretical Physics / Physique théorique (DTP-DPT) M1-4 Quantum Theory (DTP) | Théorie quantique (DPT)

Speaker

Wyatt Kirkby (McMaster University)

Description

We identify the light-cone-like structures present following quenches in spin-chains as quantum caustics. These are discrete versions of the singularities classified by catastrophe theory. From this identification follows: local universality