John Cardy

Biographical Summary

Brief research description

Research papers

• Since 1992
• Key Papers
• Nature News item on the a-theorem

Books

• Description
• Table of contents
• Preface
• Chapter 11:`Conformal Symmetry' pdf version
• Hints for the Exercises pdf version
• Corrigenda

• Description

Review Articles

• Boundary Conformal Field Theory, entry in Encyclopedia of Mathematical Physics (Elsevier, 2006.)
• SLE for Theoretical Physicists (Annals of Physics 318(1), 81, 2005.)

Lecture Notes

• Les Houches lectures, 1988: Conformal Invariance and Statistical Mechanics (sorry, no figures) pdf version
• Les Houches lectures, 1994: Geometrical Properties of Loops and Cluster Boundaries
• Field Theory and Non-Equilibrium Statistical Mechanics Lectures presented as part of the Troisieme Cycle de la Suisse Romande, Spring 1999.
• Lectures on Conformal Invariance and Percolation Lectures delivered at Chuo University, Tokyo, March 2001. pdf version
• Stochastic Loewner Evolution and Other Growth Processes in Two Dimensions Lectures at the Newton Institute, Cambridge, March 2006.
• Reaction-Diffusion Processes Warwick, July 2006.
• Les Houches lectures 2008: Conformal Field Theory and Statistical Mechanics.

Selected recent talks

• Earlier talks
• `Entanglement Entropy in Extended Systems' (STATPHYS 23, Genoa, 2007)
• `2d Field Theory and Random Planar Sets: past and future' (Conformal Maps from Probability to Physics, Ascona, 2010)
• `The Ubiquitous `c': from the Stefan-Boltzmann Law to Quantum Information' (Boltzmann Medal Lecture, StatPhys24, Cairns, 2010)
• `Logarithmic CFTs as Limits of Ordinary CFTs, and some physical applications' (IHP, Paris, 2011)
• `Renormalisation Group Flows in Four Dimensions and the a-theorem' (Oxford, 2012)
• `Quantum Quench in Conformal Field Theory from a General Short-Range State' (GGI, Florence, 2012)
• `Boundary CFT from Strings to Percolation to Quantum Quenches' (Dirac Medal lecture, Trieste 2012)
• `Measuring Quantum Entanglement' (Max Born Lecture, Goettingen, 2012)

Physics Teaching

• Introduction to Quantum Field Theory, Michaelmas Term 2012

  • Synopsis
  • Complete Lecture Notes
  • Problem Set 1
  • Problem Set 2
  • Notes on the coherent state path integral
  • Notes on relation between RG in statistical mechanics and field theory
  • Further Reading

• Previous lecture courses

Other links

• Wikipedia article
• All Souls College
• African Institute for Mathematical Sciences
• A C Irvine Travel Fund
• Oxford Mountaineering Club