How to Use field theory in a Sentence

field theory

noun

• In fact, most of us were outsiders to cosmology, doing our main work in the fields of particle physics and quantum-field theory.
  — Frank Wilczek, WSJ, 16 Mar. 2018
• The first is conformal field theory or CFT which describes particle physics on the smallest quantum scales.
  — The Physics Arxiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 5 Dec. 2022
• Fischler called him the father of effective field theory.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 27 July 2021
• The second reason has to do with Weinberg’s effective field theory.
  — WIRED, 10 Aug. 2023
• On the first day (yesterday, by now), my favorite talk was by Leonardo Senatore on the effective field theory of inflation.
  — Sean Carroll, Discover Magazine, 19 Apr. 2011
• In this system, the entire region of spacetime is built out of interactions between the components of the quantum system in the conformal field theory.
  — Adam Becker, Scientific American, 20 Jan. 2022
• But the conformal field theory that linked the monster group to the j-function was just one example of an infinite number of conformal field theories.
  — Jordana Cepelewicz, Quanta Magazine, 9 Mar. 2023
• The documentary posits a unified field theory of fin de siècle snark, where the nascent internet and the cynical sarcasm of David Letterman combined to form a bitter brew.
  — John Kelly, Washington Post, 19 Oct. 2022
• Nothing thereafter came close, and his lifelong ambition, a unified field theory, escaped him.
  — The Atlantic, 18 Aug. 2019
• Kaku, a physicist at the City University of New York and a leading proponent of string field theory, traces the effort to merge relativity and quantum theory, uniting the laws that govern the very large and the very small.
  — New York Times, 6 Apr. 2021
• To fill in that deeper level, Einstein sought a unified field theory, in which particles derive from structures that look nothing like particles.
  — George Musser, Scientific American, 1 Sep. 2015
• Adding gravity to the act, the issue featured an essay by Einstein that propounded a comprehensive field theory that would hold physics together.
  — Alfred W. McCoy, Scientific American, 18 Aug. 2020
• Conformal field theory, geometric entities, before and after that exist only in the head—and, in this despotic head, a big muddle and great confusion.
  — Claudio Magris, Harper's Magazine, 25 May 2021
• Effective field theory fixes the problem by accounting for the interplay between scales only down to a few times the distance between galaxies.
  — Quanta Magazine, 12 Feb. 2014
• The couple, working with Luftwerk, a Chicago studio that does large-scale projects for public buildings, added a huge interior light installation inspired by Netsch’s field theory.
  — J.s. Marcus, WSJ, 8 Dec. 2021
• His textbooks on quantum field theory were a godsend, and his perspectives on the inevitability of quantum field theory and on effective field theory formed the foundation of my picture of the world.
  — Quanta Magazine, 12 Aug. 2021
• My contribution was — along with professor Keiji Kikkawa — to create string field theory, which can summarize string theory in an equation about 1-inch long.
  — Alex Orlando, Discover Magazine, 15 Sep. 2021
• Quantum field theory, which had been used successfully to explain electromagnetism and the weak nuclear force, wasn’t cutting it, so physicists were eager for something new.
  — Paul Sutter, Ars Technica, 27 Jan. 2023
• But, strangely, the calculation that came closest used an oversimplified model of the nuclear force—not the chiral effective field theory.
  — WIRED, 10 Aug. 2023
• Maldacena looked at the conformal field theory describing D-branes without gravity on the one hand and an AdS theory with one more dimension of space, but with gravity, on the other.
  — Anil Ananthaswamy, Scientific American, 30 Nov. 2022
• Her controversial work with patients with dissociative identity disorder led her to develop a field theory of what makes a killer.
  — Washington Post, 18 Nov. 2020
• Maldacena looked at the conformal field theory describing D-branes without gravity on the one hand and an AdS theory with one more dimension of space and including gravity on the other.
  — Anil Ananthaswamy, Scientific American, 1 Mar. 2023
• Quantum field theory depicts discrete particles as excitations in continuous fields that stretch across space and time.
  — Thomas Lewton, Wired, 1 Aug. 2021
• An effective field theory is a way of using symmetries to sum up the effects of many unknown high-energy effects in a relatively simple low-energy description.
  — Sean Carroll, Discover Magazine, 19 Apr. 2011
• His reasoning very much follows the Wilsonian effective field theory approach.
  — Sean Carroll, Discover Magazine, 7 Feb. 2012
• And so physicists have continued to study conformal field theories by looking at their associated modular forms.
  — Jordana Cepelewicz, Quanta Magazine, 9 Mar. 2023
• Quantum field theory describes particles as excitations in underlying fields, like ripples in a pond.
  — Quanta Magazine, 12 Dec. 2022
• This is consistent too with the argument that locality must be fundamentally lost: the dual picture is holographic, formulated in terms of field theory degrees of freedom that are projected on the boundary of the space rather than living inside it.
  — Sean Carroll, Discover Magazine, 27 Sep. 2012
• Photograph: Angelika Stehle In 2013, Bacca used this effective field theory to predict how much an excited helium nucleus would swell.
  — WIRED, 10 Aug. 2023
• Conformal field theory is a type of quantum field theory that has certain special mathematical properties.
  — Popular Mechanics, 31 July 2023

Last Updated: 18 Oct 2024