1pm - 2pm: Entropic order
1pm - 2pm: Entropic order
- Event time: 12:30pm until 2:30pm
- Event date: 25th March 2026
- Speaker: Enrico Andriolo (Durham University)
- Location: Higgs Centre Seminar Room, Room 4305, James Clerk Maxwell Building (JCMB) James Clerk Maxwell Building Peter Guthrie Tait Road Edinburgh EH9 3FD GB
Event details
It is commonly expected that increasing temperature drives physical systems towards disorder. Surprisingly, certain models are conjectured to exhibit the opposite behaviour: at extremely high temperatures they enter an ordered phase, stabilized by entropy. After a gentle introduction to this counterintuitive phenomenon, I will outline the main ideas behind a rigorous proof showing that such entropically driven order can indeed occur. No prior familiarity with the topic will be assumed.
About Particle Physics Theory seminars
The Particle Physics Theory seminar is a weekly series of talks reflecting the diverse interests of the group. Topics include analytic and numerical calculations based on the Standard Model of elementary particle physics, theories exploring new physics, as well as more formal developments in gauge theories and gravity..