Dr Marten Reehorst is a research associate in the Theoretical Physics group in the Department of Mathematics at King’s College London.

Marten received his PhD in Physics from École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Lausanne, Switzerland. Upon graduating he became a research associate at Institute Des Hautes Études Scientifiques (IHES) and Ecole Polytechnique Paris (a joint position). He joined the department of Mathematics at King’s in 2023.

Research interests

Marten’s main research interest is improving our understanding of quantum field theory applied to both high energy physics, and statistical physics/condensed matter systems through the use of non-perturbative methods such as the numerical conformal bootstrap and the renormalization group. In this field he has developed breakthrough new techniques such as the “navigator method” which changes the complexity class of various numerical conformal bootstrap problems to a much more advantageous one opening up many new avenues of research.

Marten has applied these methods to solve longstanding open problems in statistical physics related to critical phenomena and phase transitions. Marten is now applying these same techniques to solve high energy physics problems; Lately he has been working on using the numerical conformal bootstrap to determine the conformal window of Quantum chromodynamics (QCD).

Keywords:

• Conformal field theory
• Numerical conformal bootstrap
• Renormalization group
• Non-perturbative methods in quantum field theory.
• Phase transitions and critical phenomena.
• Quantum chromodynamics (QCD)

Further information

• Publications on INSPIRE
• Publications on Orchid