Colloquium----Institute of Theoretical Physics，Chinese Academy of Sciences

Institute of Theoretical Physics
Key Laboratory of Theoretical Physics
Chinese Academy of Sciences
Colloquium
Title 题目	The string theory – condensed matter flirtation: an eyewitness account
Speaker 报告人	Prof. ？Jan Zaanen Prof. Jan Zaanen is distinguished professor of theoretical physics at the Lorentz institute for theoretical physics, Leiden University. He is one of the world leaders in the field of quantum condensed matter physics and the condensed matter applications of gauge/gravity duality. He is recipient of the Dutch Spinoza Award (the “dutch Nobel Prize"), member of the Dutch Royal Academy of Sciences, fellow of the American Physical Society and the Newton Center at Cambridge University, while he held the Solvay Professor chair at the Solvay institute. He is also well known for his many editorial contributions to the journals Nature and Science. For more introduction to Prof. Zaanen, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Zaanen and his homepage https://www.lorentz.leidenuniv.nl/zaanen/wordpress/.
Affiliation 所在单位	Lorentz institute for theoretical physics, Leiden University
Date 日期	3:00pm, July 7？ (F？riday？), 2017
Venue 地点	理论物理所新楼6620报告厅
Abstract 摘要	A quake is rumbling through the core of physics: the empiricisms of condensed matter physics and the mathematics of string theory appear to have some deep relations. For the initiated this has an unusually strong allure, but since this cocktail involves some of the most impenetrable areas of physics it is not easy to communicate the excitement to the community at large. I will attempt to get some of it across by telling the story from the perspective of a condensed matter theorist who learned string theory only quite recently. How string theory evolved from a reductionist’s enterprise into some modern incarnation of statistical physics, equipped with general relativity turbo’s and quantum information boosters in the form of the “AdS/CFT” holographic duality. How the universality of general relativity turned into a classification method for phases of matter, including new forms of “quantum” matter characterized by dense quantum entanglements on the macroscopic scale. How the latter reveal highly unusual traits having eerie resemblances with the mysterious experimental observations, with as highlight the famous linear resistivity measured in the strange metal phase of the high Tc superconductors.
Contact person 所内合作者	Rong-Gen Cai