A great deal of research is carried out at the IPhT. Its main aim is to formulate and study the physical and mathematical laws that govern our universe, its structure and its organisation, and it covers almost all the major subjects of modern theoretical physics: from the study of fundamental interactions, aimed in particular at describing the primordial universe, to the development of models for understanding certain biological structures. They also involve the mathematical study of complex systems in statistical physics and field theory. Beneath the diversity of the systems studied lies a profound unity between the various mathematical formalisms used to describe them.
Main themes
Mathematical physics, string theory and gravity
- Quantum field theory, CFT, bootstrap
- Integrable systems, integrable field theories
- Combinatorics, enumerative and random
- String Theory and black holes
Cosmology, astrophysics, high energy physics and hadronic matter
- Nuclear matter at high density, heavy ion collisions, jet physics
- Scattering amplitudes (for gauge theories and ugravity)
- Physics beyond the Standard Model
- Cosmology and gravity
Statistical physics and applications, condensed matter, quantum information
- Quantum Condensed-matter
- In and out-of equilibrium dynamics (quantum & classical)
- Disordered systems and multidisciplinary applications of statistical physics
- Theoretical quantum information: computation & communication