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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
The Future of Numerical Relativity: Gravitational Memory, BMS Frames, and More
As was realized by Bondi, Metzner, van der Burg, and Sachs (BMS), the symmetry group of asymptotic infinity is not the Poincaré group, but an infinite-dimensional group called the BMS...
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
On the fate of the LR instability
Abstract and Zoom Link: https://pitp.zoom.us/j/91762985902?pwd=djhwYVdsQ25GVVBRVTlwSkQvaDJ4Zz09
Oct 18, 2022
: From black holes to the Big Bang: astrophysics and cosmology with gravitational waves and their electromagnetic counterparts
The growing catalog of gravitational-wave signals from compact object mergers has allowed us to study the properties of black holes and neutron stars more precisely than ever before and has...
Oct 27, 2022
Perspectives on Matter Effects in GW170817
The detection of coalescing neutron stars via gravitational waves (GW170817) has revolutionized our understanding of the equation of state at supranuclear densities. The equation of state determines how neutron stars...
Oct 17, 2019
Real-time dynamics of plasma balls in a confining background
Black holes in the background of the AdS soliton are, according to the gauge/gravity correspondence, dual to droplets of deconfined plasma surrounded by a confining vacuum. In this talk I...
Oct 31, 2019
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