3–14 Aug 2026
Europe/London timezone
This is the annual bootstrap conference, which will take place in London during the first two weeks of August 2026

Towards a quantum lattice bootstrap

12 Aug 2026, 10:00
45m
Lecture Theatre 1 (Blackett Building at Imperial College London)

Lecture Theatre 1

Blackett Building at Imperial College London

Speaker

Sean Hartnoll

Description

I will explain how the analyticity and boundedness properties underpinning the S-matrix bootstrap can be adapted to constrain the dynamics of quantum mechanical lattice models. The basic quantity will be the retarded Green’s function, for which we obtain strong analyticity and boundedness properties using the Lieb-Robinson bound, a fundamental result for local lattice dynamics that I will review. I will explain how these properties (bounds and analyticity) can be used to place constraints on transport coefficients and on non-Fermi liquid coupling constants.

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