Speaker
Jerome Dubail
(Yale University)
Description
A celebrated theoretical approach to the Fractional
Quantum Hall Effect consists in cooking up trial
wavefunctions for various filling fractions.
Some specific trial states (the ones given by conformal
blocks) have particularly nice properties. Physically, they
describe exotic phases of matter, for instance with non-
abelian excitations. On the technical side, they bear some
striking resemblance with Tensor Product States.
The purpose of this talk is to explain how the edge
excitations and the entanglement spectrum of these states
both arise naturally from their underlying CFT structure.
