Publications de Matthew Thomas Walters

Flux correlators and semiclassics

Riccardo Rattazzi, Alexander Monin, Eren Clément Firat, Matthew Thomas Walters

We consider correlators for the flux of energy and charge in the background of operators with large global U(1) charge in conformal field theory (CFT). It has recently been shown that the corresponding Euclidean correlators generically admit a semiclassica ...

Springer Nature2024

Towards a nonperturbative construction of the S-matrix

Francesco Riva, Matthew Thomas Walters, Brian Quinn Henning

We present a nonperturbative recipe for directly computing the S-matrix in strongly-coupled QFTs. The method makes use of spectral data obtained in a Hamiltonian framework and can be applied to a wide range of theories, including potentially QCD. We demons ...

Springer Nature2023

Thermalization and chaos in a 1+1d QFT

Matthew Thomas Walters

We study aspects of chaos and thermodynamics at strong coupling in a scalar model using LCT numerical methods. We find that our eigenstate spectrum satisfies Wigner-Dyson statistics and that the coefficients describing eigenstates in our basis satisfy Rand ...

Springer Nature2023

Thermalization and hydrodynamics of two-dimensional quantum field theories

Matthew Thomas Walters

We consider 2d QFTs as relevant deformations of CFTs in the thermodynamic limit. Using causality and KPZ universality, we place a lower bound on the timescale characterizing the onset of hydrodynamics. The bound is determined parametrically in terms of the ...

2022

Nonperturbative dynamics of (2+1)d phi(4)-theory from Hamiltonian truncation

Matthew Thomas Walters

We use Lightcone Conformal Truncation (LCT)-a version of Hamiltonian truncation - to study the nonperturbative, real-time dynamics of phi (4)-theory in 2+1 dimensions. This theory has UV divergences that need to be regulated. We review how, in a Hamiltonia ...

Springer Nature2021

On the stress tensor light-ray operator algebra

Grégoire Olivier Mathys, Matthew Thomas Walters, Alexandre Mathieu Frédéric Belin

We study correlation functions involving generalized ANEC operators of the form integral dx-x-n+2T--x -> in four dimensions. We compute two, three, and ...

Springer Nature2021

Solving the 2D SUSY Gross-Neveu-Yukawa model with conformal truncation

Matthew Thomas Walters

We use Lightcone Conformal Truncation to analyze the RG flow of the two-dimensional supersymmetric Gross-Neveu-Yukawa theory, i.e. the theory of a real scalar superfield with a DOUBLE-STRUCK CAPITAL Z(2)-symmetric cubic superpotential, aka the 2d Wess-Zumi ...

Springer Nature2021

Momentum space CFT correlators for Hamiltonian truncation

Matthew Thomas Walters

We consider Lorentzian CFT Wightman functions in momentum space. In particular, we derive a set of reference formulas for computing two- and three-point functions, restricting our attention to three-point functions where the middle operator (corresponding ...

Springer Nature2020