The Algebra & Geometry of Modern Physics
sala 2.23, ul. Pasteura 5
Piotr Surówka (Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems)
Symmetry, topology and hydrodynamics
I will show how hydrodynamics is modified if the underlying fluid constituents are massless Weyl fermions, which are anomalous at the quantum level. The non-dissipative nature of the modification allows one to construct a partition function which compactly describes the transport properties of the system. I will explain how the anomalous properties can be understood in terms of heat kernels.