Gauge theories in two dimensions provide a powerful testing ground for understanding strongly coupled quantum field theories. In this talk, I’ll present an alternative numerical approach based on Hamiltonian truncation for investigating these theories nonperturbatively. We work on a spatial interval and fix to axial gauge, eliminating gauge field degrees of freedom entirely, thus allowing us...
In the context of quantum field theory (QFT), there are no known examples of non-topological fully local theories. In the topological case, constructing a fully local theory is equivalent to finding all defects. We extend this framework to non-topological theories, proposing that defects might arise from quantising classical degrees of freedom. This idea seems particularly plausible within the...
