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First-principle approach to the superpositions of gravitational fields in atom interferometry
Understanding the fundamental nature of gravity at the interface with quantum theory is a major open question in theoretical physics. Recent progress in experiments has enabled probing the interaction of...
Nov 14, 2022
Causality and Ideal Measurements of Smeared Fields in Quantum Field Theory
The usual quantum mechanical description of measurements, unitary kicks, and other local operations has the potential to produce pathological causality violations in the relativistic setting of quantum field theory (QFT)...
Nov 17, 2022
Toys can't play: physical agents in Spekkens' theory
Information is physical, and for a physical theory to be universal, it should model observers as physical systems, with concrete memories where they store the information acquired through experiments and...
Oct 14, 2022
Phenomenological thermodynamics with multiple quantities of interest
Joint work (in progress) with Ladina Hausmann, Nuriya Nurgalieva and Renato Renner We can classify contemporary approaches to thermodynamics in roughly four camps: (1) Top-down microscopic approaches. These are for...
Oct 21, 2022
Quantum Gravity Demystified
One fruitful strategy of tackling quantum gravity is to adapt quantum field theory to the situation where spacetime geometry is dynamical, and to implement diffeomorphism symmetry in a way that...
Oct 27, 2022
Evaporating Black-to-White Hole
What is the ultimate fate of black holes? Since the discovery of Hawking evaporation process, the issue has been much discussed. Loop quantum gravity suggests that black hole could ultimately...
Oct 10, 2019
No entailing laws, but enablement in the evolution of the biosphere
Biological evolution is a complex blend of ever changing structural stability, variability and emergence of new phenotypes, niches, ecosystems. We wish to argue that the evolution of life marks the...
Oct 17, 2019
Gabriela González, Louisiana State University
Albert Einstein predicted a century ago the existence of gravitational waves – ripples in the fabric of spacetime moving at the speed of light. It was believed that these ripples...
Oct 23, 2019
Central extension in gravity
The asymptotic symmetry charge algebra of certain class of spacetimes could have a nontrivial central extension, which measures the non-equivariance of the charges of the large gauge transformations. The Cardy...
Oct 24, 2019
Dimensionally Restricted Causal Sets
We study dimensionally restricted non-perturbative causal set quantum dynamics in two and three spacetime dimensions with non-trivial global spatial topology. The causal set sample space is generated from causal embeddings...
Oct 31, 2019