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====== Conformal Field Theory ====== | ====== Conformal Field Theory ====== | ||
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+ | <tabbox Intuitive> | ||
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+ | Conformal field theory is either a classical field theory or quantum field theory with only massless particles. In such theories, there is no mass scale and hence the theory is scale invariant, which means it looks the same no matter from how far away we look at it. | ||
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+ | <tabbox Concrete> | ||
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+ | In this section things should be explained by analogy and with pictures and, if necessary, some formulas. | ||
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+ | <tabbox Abstract> | ||
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+ | The motto in this section is: //the higher the level of abstraction, the better//. | ||
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<tabbox Why is it interesting?> | <tabbox Why is it interesting?> | ||
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See also: https://www.quantamagazine.org/using-the-bootstrap-physicists-uncover-geometry-of-theory-space-20170223 and [[advanced_notions:critical_exponent|Critical Exponents]] | See also: https://www.quantamagazine.org/using-the-bootstrap-physicists-uncover-geometry-of-theory-space-20170223 and [[advanced_notions:critical_exponent|Critical Exponents]] | ||
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- | <tabbox Layman> | ||
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- | Explanations in this section should contain no formulas, but instead colloquial things like you would hear them during a coffee break or at a cocktail party. | ||
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- | <tabbox Student> | ||
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- | In this section things should be explained by analogy and with pictures and, if necessary, some formulas. | ||
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- | <tabbox Researcher> | ||
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- | The motto in this section is: //the higher the level of abstraction, the better//. | ||
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- | <tabbox History> | ||
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