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Snowmass White Paper: Effective Field Theories for Condensed Matter Systems

High Energy Physics - Theory 2022-03-22 v1 Other Condensed Matter

Abstract

We review recent progress and a number of future directions for applications of effective field theory methods to condensed matter systems broadly defined. Our emphasis is on areas that have allowed a fertile exchange of ideas between high energy physics and many-body theory. We discuss developments in the effective field theory of spontaneous symmetry breaking, of hydrodynamics and non-equilibrium dynamics more generally, fracton phases of matter, and dualities between 2+1 dimensional field theories. We furthermore discuss the application of effective field theory to non-Fermi liquids, the dynamics of entanglement entropy and to condensed matter aspects of cosmology.

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@article{arxiv.2203.10110,
  title  = {Snowmass White Paper: Effective Field Theories for Condensed Matter Systems},
  author = {Tomas Brauner and Sean A. Hartnoll and Pavel Kovtun and Hong Liu and Márk Mezei and Alberto Nicolis and Riccardo Penco and Shu-Heng Shao and Dam Thanh Son},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2203.10110},
  year   = {2022}
}

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Contribution to Snowmass 2021; 13 + 20 pages; 1 figure