Research
Our research is centered around holography
(a.k.a. gauge/gravity duality or AdS/CFT) which relates strongly interacting
quantum field theories to gravitational theories.
In particular, gauge/gravity duality relates black holes to
strongly coupled quantum systems with maximal quantum entanglement.
The work includes the following research directions:
Strongly interacting quantum field theories and
gauge/gravity duality
- Gravitational description of strongly coupled quantum systems.
- Unitarity constraints in quantum field theories.
Quantum entanglement in QFT and its interpretation in dual gravity
- Studying evolution of quantum field theories from high to low
energies using
quantum entanglement and entropic c-functions.
- Quantum entanglement and emergence of spacetime.
- Gravity and quantum information.
Members
Andrei Parnachev (Assistant
Professor)
Francisco Jose Garcia Abad (Ph.D student)
Former postdocs and students
Richard Davison (postdoc, 2012-1015; postdoc, Harvard
University)
Mikhail Goykhman (Ph.D. student,
2011-2014; postdoc, University of
Chicago)
Andrea Mezzalira (postdoc, 2015-2016; IT industry)