I am a Miller Postdoctoral Fellow at UC Berkeley, interested in a broad range of problems in condensed matter theory, quantum dynamics, and quantum information.
email: elake at berkeley.edu
Short notes
- Brownian motion on Riemannian manifolds
- Renormalization of spacetime noise a la Gacs
- Notes on geometric group theory and the geometry of Baumslag-Solitar groups
- One-axis twisting
- Ising models on trees
- Constraints on subsystem entanglement
- Playing around with dipolar Markov circuits
- Notes on skyrmions in Chern bands
- Minimal phenomenological models for underdoped bi-2212 and bi-2201
- Fermi liquid interaction effects in superconductors, and applications to the cuprates
- Fermi liquid RG revisited
- Bogoliubov transformations and squeezed states
- Classical Monte Carlo primer
- Thermodynamics of large N ferromagnets in 2+1D
- Phases of abelian lattice gauge theories, quantum-classical mappings, and dualities
- Notes on (fractional) instanton numbers for various gauge theories
- Manifesto on diffeomorphisms, conformal transformations, and spacetime symmetries in field theory
- Random quantum expanders
- Fundamental group of distcrete quotients of U(n)
- 1-form anomalies in CS theories
- Determining when various CS theories are spin
- Fermions and spinG structures
- Conventions for spinors and pinors in QFT in D=2,3,4
- Zero modes for Dirac fermions in various flux backgrounds on various manifolds
- Understanding the Pointryagin square
- Personal cheat-sheet for 1+1d bosonization
- Stability of stacks of 1+1d and 2+1d Zn CFTs
- Partons for a single spin
- Some Pontryagin class manipulations
- Orhtogonality and completeness relations for projective representations
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