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SUMMARY:Entanglement Bootstrap: Principles and Prospects - Bowen Shi (Univ
 ersity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
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DESCRIPTION:I will introduce the on-going research program of the entangle
 ment bootstrap\, which aims to provide a mechanism by which quantum field 
 theories may emerge from a quantum many-body system. After outlining the m
 otivation and basic axioms concerning the fixed-point vacuum state\, I wil
 l describe some of their consequences. In gapped theories satisfying an en
 tanglement area law\, the axioms imply that topological charges can be def
 ined and transported continuously across space. Consistency rules of fusio
 n and braiding then emerge as consequences of entanglement properties. Rel
 axing the axioms locally leads to natural definitions of defects and domai
 n walls. I will conclude with some recent progress and possible future dir
 ections.
LOCATION:Seminar Room 2\, Newton Institute
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