Critical phenomena from black holes and the Keldysh Schwinger

物质的不同阶段之间的过渡是自然界中所有能量尺度上发生的最迷人的现象之一。独立于微观细节之外，同样的普遍规律支配着从高温超导体到中子星的各种系统。该项目的目的是使用受弦理论启发的技术来推导描述接近相变的系统的实时动力学的数学。这些技术适合进行精确的计算，从而得出该项目希望揭示的普遍规律。

Transitions between different phases of matter are one of the most fascinating phenomena occurring at all energy scales in Nature. Independently of the microscopic details, the same universal laws govern systems rangingfrom high temperature superconductors to neutron stars. The aim of the project is to use string theory inspired techniques to derive the mathematics describing the real time dynamics of systems which are close to a phase transition. These techniques are suitable to carry out exact computations which can lead lead to the universal laws that the project wishes to reveal.