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!!! New Venue: Budinich Lecture Hall !!!
Abstract
The physics of the 19th century was largely shaped by the development of two field theories, electro-dynamics and fluid-dynamics. The fate of of the two, with the advent of quantum mechanics and relativity in the following century, has been quite different. The former served the basis for quantum gauge theories and fundamental interaction while the latter remained mostly within the realm of classical physics. While relativity offers an obvious reason for that as concerns fundamental interactions, the reason for the different fate of fluid-dynamics in the quantum world is less evident.
In this talk I will report on the exploration of the perfect fluid through the lens of the modern effective field theory methodology. I will illustrate the different, and subtly inequivalent, realizations of fluid mechanics in classical field theory and then discuss the quantum treatment with its rather unusual implications. |
JOINT ICTP-SISSA-UNITS Seminar - The Quantum Mechanical Perfect Fluid
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