2025-11-20 - Mathematical Aspects of Statistical Physics & Quantum Information

Uploaded November 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

A two-day workshop to celebrate the 70th Birthday of Professor Tony Dorlas is organised for the 20-21 November 2025. Entitled Mathematical Aspects of Statistical Physics & Quantum Information, the workshop was held at STP, DIAS Burlington Road, Dublin

(00:00:00) David Evans: Quantum Symmetries
(00:47:52) Hans Maassen: Copying Quantum States
(01:37:41) Aernout van Enter: Some Recent Results on Dyson Models
(02:22:22) Pierluigi Contucci: Statistical Mechanics and Artificial Intelligence

2025-11-20 - Mathematical Aspects of Statistical Physics & Quantum Information - Day 1

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Confinement and Deconfinement in Gauge Theories : A Quantum Field Theory

$Maxwell Theory of Fractons Speaker: Erica Bertolini (DIAS) Abstract: In this talk I will show that the main properties of the fracton quasiparticles can be derived from a generalized covariant Maxwell-like action. Starting from a rank-2 symmetric tensor field, a partially symmetric rank-3 tensor field strength can be built, which obeys a kind of Bianchi identity. The most general action invariant under the covariant fracton? transformation consists of two independent terms: one describing Linearized Gravity (LG) and the other referable to fractons, a proof of the always suspected relation between fractons and gravitons. I will also discuss that, as claimed in the Literature, the fracton part can be reconduced to a generalized Maxwell theory. In particular, in the covariant generalization of the fracton theory, the equations describing the fracton limited mobility, i.e. the charge and dipole conservation, are not external constraints, but rather consequences of the field equations of motion, hence of the invariant action and, ultimately, of the fracton covariant symmetry. I will also discuss boundary effects related to this fracton model.$

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