Seminar: "Quantization of Hydrodynamics and Gravitational Anomaly "

Professor Paul Wiegmann is an IAS Distinguished Scholar of the Institute of Advanced Studies for the academic year 2024/2025.

Abstract

We discuss the quantization of 2D hydrodynamics of incompressible perfect fluid in two dimensions with a focus on chiral flows. Chiral flows occur in rotating fluids and also in electronic systems in the regime of a fractional Hall effect. The quantization is based on a relation of chiral flows to two-dimensional quantum gravity and is implemented by the gravitational anomaly.