Hubert Saleur
Theoretical Physics
Physics
The things we’re working on right now include:
- the statistical properties of loop models, in particular those that appear in reformulations of the Chalker Coddington model for the Hall plateau transition,
- non-compact conformal field theories and their spin chain regularizations, including the Bethe-ansatz with non-compact representations,
- fusion in bulk logarithmic conformal field theory,
- four point-functions and bootstrap in the O(n) and Q-state Potts models, with applications to percolation and polymers,
- conformal boundary conditions for these problems,
- lattice discretizations of the Virasoro algebra,
- lattice realizations of topological defects in CFTs,
- analog quantum computer simulations of quantum field theories using Josephson junction arrays,
- transport in non-unitary one-dimensional systems
- various subtle aspects of entanglement (in particular the role of cuts and non-unitarity)
- digital quantum computer simulations of topological defects