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Higgs Centre for Theoretical Physics

The Higgs Centre for Theoretical Physics was established in 2012 by the University of Edinburgh to seek answers to fundamental questions about the universe. We do this by creating opportunities for researchers and students from around the world to come together to formulate new theoretical concepts, taking us beyond the limitations of current paradigms.

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Upcoming events

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Hadrons User Workshop

The aim of this workshop is to familiarise participants with Hadrons, a well-established GPU-ready tool for designing lattice QCD observable measurement workflows built on the Grid software library, and to give participants the opportunity to write Hadrons workflows to address their own physics of interest. Additionally, this workshop seeks to ...
  • Higgs Centre Seminar Room, JCMB

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Exotic Phase Transitions in Open Quantum Systems—Peter KIRTON

In this talk I will show how phase transitions in open quantum systems can be richer than their equilibrium counterparts. To do this I will give two examples. The first shows how ideas of parity-time (PT) symmetry breaking can be generalised to quantum mechanical systems. After introducing some simple examples ...
Higgs Centre Seminar Room, JCMB

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Massive Black Hole Spin Workshop

Astrophysical black holes can be entirely described by just two properties: their mass and their spin. While masses of black holes have been extensively studied, black hole spin remains poorly understood. This is because spin is both much more difficult to observe and more complex to model. Nevertheless, spin is ...
  • Higgs Centre Seminar Room, JCMB

This event is a Colloquium.

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Overlaps in spin glasses and models of evolution—Bernard DERRIDA

A measure of similarity or overlap between different configurations or individuals appears in many complex systems such as spin glasses, evolving populations, optimization problems and neural networks. In the context of spin glasses, the concept was introduced by Edwards and Anderson 50 years ago and gives a measure of similarity ...
Higgs Centre Seminar Room, JCMB

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