Spacetime Bricks: How Tensor Networks Catch an Elusive Field Theory
In quantum physics, there are theories where everything follows clear proportions, like a musical rhythm that always returns to the beginning of the bar. But there are also 'irrational' theories where the rhythm breaks and predicting the next beat is nearly impossible. One such theory is the compactified boson: a particle lives on a circle, and its behavior depends on the radius of that circle.
