John Cardy

Biographical Summary

Brief research description

Research papers

• Since 1992
• 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; pdf version; scanned figures are here
• 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 talks

• Earlier talks
• `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)
• `The Legacy of Ken Wilson' (Ken Wilson Memorial Session, StatPhys 25, Seoul, 2013)
• `Entanglement in Quantum Field Theory' (Cambridge, 2013)
• `Thermalization and Revivals after a Quantum Quench in a Finite System' (Nottingham, 2014)

Physics Teaching

• Previous lecture courses

Other links

• Wikipedia article
• Condensed Matter Theory Center University of California, Berkeley
• All Souls College
• My Art pages