Valentin Bonzom

Research Interests

I am a theoretical physicist interested in dynamical geometries and disordered lattices. Part of the motivation is to study models of quantum gravity, where geometry itself is dynamical, and understand how that affects critical behaviors of matter coupled to gravity. I work on the development of appropriate mathematical tools, in particular random tensor models, a generalization of the theory of random matrices in probability. Such models have naturally emerged in various approaches to quantum gravity (strings, loop quantum gravity, dynamical triangulations). Furthermore I expect them to provide new insights in statistical mechanics: properties of disordered systems, counting problems...

Positions Held

• 2007 - 2010 Ph.D. in Centre de Physique Theorique, Marseille. Teaching activities in Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon

Recent Publications

• Coupling of hard dimers to dynamical lattices via random tensors, Valentin Bonzom and Harold Erbin, To appear in J. Stat. Mech, arxiv: 1204.3798
• Random tensor models in the large N limit: Uncoloring the colored tensor models, Valentin Bonzom, Razvan Gurau, Vincent Rivasseau, Phys. Rev. D 85, 084037 (2012) arxiv: 1202.3637
• Gauge symmetries in spinfoam gravity: the case for "cellular quantization", Valentin Bonzom, Matteo Smerlak Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 241303 (2012) arxiv: 1201.4996
• Lessons from Toy-Models for the Dynamics of Loop Quantum Gravity Valentin Bonzom, Alok Laddha SIGMA 8 (2012), 009 arxiv: 1110.2157
• A new Hamiltonian for the Topological BF phase with spinor networks, Valentin Bonzom and Etera R. Livine, J. Math. Phys. 53, 072201 (2012) arxiv: 1110.3272
• Asymptotics of Wigner 3nj-symbols with Small and Large Angular Momenta: an Elementary Method, Valentin Bonzom, Pierre Fleury, J. Phys. A: Math. Theor. 45 (2012) 075202 arxiv: 1108.1569
• The Ising Model on Random Lattices in Arbitrary Dimensions, Valentin Bonzom, Razvan Gurau, Vincent Rivasseau, Physics Letters B 711 (2012), pp. 88-96 arxiv: 1108.6269
• Critical behavior of colored tensor models in the large N limit, Valentin Bonzom, Razvan Gurau, Aldo Riello, Vincent Rivasseau, Nucl. Phys. B853 (2011) 174-195, arxiv: 1105.3122
• Bubble divergences: sorting out topology from cell structure, Valentin Bonzom, Matteo Smerlak, Annales Henri Poincaré: 13 (2012) 185-208 arxiv: 1103.3961
• A new Recursion Relation for the 6j-Symbol, Valentin Bonzom, Etera R. Livine, Annales Henri Poincaré: 13 (2012), 1083-1099 arxiv: 1103.3415
• The Hamiltonian constraint in 3d Riemannian loop quantum gravity, Valentin Bonzom, Laurent Freidel, Class.Quant.Grav.28:195006,2011 arxiv: 1101.3524
• Spin foam models and the Wheeler-DeWitt equation for the quantum 4-simplex, Valentin Bonzom, Phys.Rev.D84:024009,2011 arxiv: 1101.1615
• Radiative corrections in the Boulatov-Ooguri tensor model: The 2-point function, Joseph Ben Geloun, Valentin Bonzom, Int.J.Theor.Phys.50:2819-2841,2011 arxiv: 1101.4294
• Counting Line-Colored D-ary Trees, Valentin Bonzom, Razvan Gurau, arxiv: 1206.4203
• Universality in p-spin glasses, Valentin Bonzom, Razvan Gurau, Matteo Smerlak, arxiv: 1206.5539
• Generating Functions for Coherent Intertwiners, Valentin Bonzom, Etera R. Livine, arxiv: 1205.5677
• Multicritical tensor models and hard dimers on spherical random lattices, Valentin Bonzom, arxiv: 1201.1931