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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
An operator-algebraic formulation of self-testing
We give a new definition of self-testing for correlations in terms of states on C*-algebras. We show that this definition is equivalent to the standard definition for any class of...
Nov 16, 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
The Complexity and (Un)Computability of Quantum Phase Transitions
The phase diagram of a material is of central importance in describing the properties and behaviour of a condensed matter system. Indeed, the study of quantum phase transitions has formed...
Oct 26, 2022
Holographic scattering from quantum error-correction
We revisit the problem of how interactions emerge in quantum gravity. Namely, we show that bulk scattering of multiple particles in the AdS space requires multipartite entanglement on the boundary...
Oct 26, 2022
Relativity, Particle localizability, and Entanglement
Can a relativistic quantum field theory be consistently described as a theory of localizable particles? There are many well-known obstructions to such a description. Here, we trace exactly how such...
Nov 05, 2019
Fusion rules from entanglement
Connections between 2D gapped quantum phases and the anyon fusion theory have been proven in various ways under different settings. In this work, we introduce a new framework connecting them...
Nov 06, 2019
Solving physics many-body problems with deep learning
Solving classical and quantum physics many-body systems are amongst the hardest problems in the natural sciences, but also of fundamental importance for applications such as material and drug design. In...
Nov 12, 2019