 Thomas Close
2007-2010 Postdoctoral Fellow
String Theory
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My research activities are driven by the wish to understand nature at a level as fundamental as possible. String theory and Yang-Mills theories currently provide the best mathematical framework for this purpose. I am working on dualities that relate these models, also known as AdS/CFT correspondence. This is a very rich subject where many branches of physics and mathematics come together: integrable models, conformal field theories, supersymmetry, spin chains, quantum groups, etc. In the past I have also been working on matrix models, supersymmetric quantum mechanics, quantum field theory at finite temperature and stochastic quantization.
Recent publications:
- Worldsheet scattering in AdS5 x S5
T. Klose, T. McLoughlin, R. Roiban and K. Zarembo,
hep-th/0611169
- Long-range gl(n) integrable spin chains and plane-wave matrix theory
N. Beisert and T. Klose, J. Stat. Mech. 0607 (2006) P006, hep-th/0510124
- Planar plane-wave matrix theory at the four loop order: Integrability without BMN scaling
T. Fischbacher, T. Klose and J. Plefka, JHEP 0502 (2005) 039, hep-th/0412331
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- Plane-wave matrix theory from N = 4 super Yang-Mills on R x S3
N. Kim, T. Klose and J. Plefka, Nucl. Phys. B 671 (2003) 359, hep-th/0306054
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