Interests
As a theoretical physicist my goal is to connect fundamental theoretical principles with feasible experiments.
For this purpose I am using analytical and numerical methods. In particular, I consider principles learned from the mathematical framework of string theory. I apply these fundamental principles to strongly coupled quantum systems far from equilibrium, such as the quark-gluon plasma generated in heavy-ion-collisions, neutron stars, ultracold atoms, particular topological phases. Topics of interest include:
For this purpose I am using analytical and numerical methods. In particular, I consider principles learned from the mathematical framework of string theory. I apply these fundamental principles to strongly coupled quantum systems far from equilibrium, such as the quark-gluon plasma generated in heavy-ion-collisions, neutron stars, ultracold atoms, particular topological phases. Topics of interest include:
- Holographic Principle & Gauge/Gravity Correspondence (AdS/CFT)
- Quantum Field Theory, Gravitational Physics, String Theory
- Hydrodynamics and other Effective Field Theories
- Strongly Coupled Many-Body Quantum Systems in and out of Equilibrium
- Quark-Gluon-Plasma and Heavy-Ion Collisions
- Condensed Matter Physics
- Quantum Entanglement, Quantum Information, and Thermalization
- Machine Learning
Publications
Conference Organization
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 Poster for our first holography workshop at UA in 2015
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Seminars at the University of Alabama
Selected Invited Talks
2024
- Public talk: Quantum mechanics in the lab can explain the origin of space and time (Slides), on the occasion of appointment to Fellow of the Siebold-Collegium Institute for Advanced Studies (SCIAS) of the University of Würzburg.
- Conference talk: Early time dynamics far from equilibrium via holography (Slides), Hard Probes 2023, 11th International Conference on Hard and Electromagnetic Probes of High-Energy Nuclear Collisions (Aschaffenburg, Germany)
- Conference talk: Hydrodynamics, Thermalization & Entanglement from Spacetime Geometry (Slides), CTQMAT22 - International Conference on Complexity and Topology in Quantum Matter (Wurzburg, Germany)
- Conference talk: Chiral Magnetic Effect in Holography (Slides),
6th International Conference on Chirality, Vorticity and Magnetic Field in Heavy Ion Collisions, Stony Brook University, New York - Conference talk: Inverted c-functions in thermal states (Slides),
DPG-Tagung 2021, German Physical Society Meeting
- Conference talk: Chiral hydrodynamics of plasmas in strong magnetic fields (video),
Workshop “Problems of Duality and Holography”, Steklov Mathematical Institute, Moscow - Conference talk: Chiral hydrodynamics of plasmas in strong magnetic fields & quantum criticality (Slides),
HIPSTARS – Workshop on Heavy Ion Physics and Compact Stars, Cuba
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2019
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- Correlations far from equilibrium in charged strongly coupled fluids subjected to a strong magnetic field at
- Holographic QCD Workshop (NORDITA, Stockholm, Sweden), and
- NED2019 conference (Castiglione della Pescaia, Italy)
- Correlations far from equilibrium in charged strongly coupled fluids subjected to a strong magnetic field at INT Workshop Origins of Correlations in High Energy Collisions (INT, Seattle, WA)
- Chiral transport in strong magnetic fields from hydrodynamics & holography (video) at the conference Gauge/Gravity Duality 2018 (Würzburg, Germany)
- Seminar talk Strengths of the holographic approach at high baryon densities (GSI, Darmstadt, Germany)
- CME & CMV neutron star kicks, thermodynamic chiral transport, and polarization at the conference Open Problems and Opportunities in Chiral Fluids (Santa Fe, NM)
- Correlations far from equilibrium in strong magnetic fields at HoloQuark2018 (Santiago de Compostela, Spain)
- Lecture: (Far-from-equilibrium) dynamics in magnetic charged chiral plasma at the conference Non-Equilibrium Dynamics - NED2018 (Varadero, Cuba)
- A reality check for chiral magnetic transport & holography at the workshop on Chirality, Vorticity and Magnetic Field in Heavy Ion Collisions (GGI Florence, Italy)
- Chiral magnetic transport from holography & hydrodynamics at the workshop Holography and Quantum Matter ( Madrid, Spain)
- Quasinormal modes of charged magnetic black branes & chiral magnetic transport in strongly correlated systems (including backreaction of magnetic field) at the conference QCD in finite temperature and heavy ion collisions (BNL, Upton, NY, USA)
- Chiral transport effects in charged anisotropic plasma within a magnetic field at strong coupling (including backreaction of magnetic field) at the APS April Meeting 2017 (Washington DC, USA)
- Holographic non-relativistic transport in strongly correlated systems from Horava gravity (video) at conference Gauge/Gravity Duality and Condensed Matter (Banff, Canada, 2016)
- String theory & experiments: Effects of anomalies on strongly coupled systems far from equilibrium, NORDITA (Stockholm, Sweden, 2014)
- Colloquium: A Theory of Everything at Strong Coupling, University of Alabama (Tuscaloosa, AL, 2014)
- Non-Relativistic Parity-Violating Hydrodynamics in two Spatial Dimensions, at workshop "Quantum Anomalies & Hydrodynamics" (Simons Center, Stony Brook, NY, 2014)
- Hyperscaling Violation on Probe D-Branes at the workshop "Holography and Applied String Theory", (Banff, Canada, 2013)
- Parity-Violating Hydrodynamics & Replacing the Entropy Argument at Mextrings 2012 (Mexico City, Mexico, 2012)
- Hydrodynamics, AdS/CFT Correspondence, and the Ridge at the INT workshop The "Ridge" Correlation in High-Energy Collisions at RHIC and LHC (Seattle, WA, 2012).
- Strongly coupled field theories through the holographic lense in the INT Special Seminar at the University of Washington (Seattle, WA, 2011)
- Sum rules from an extra dimension within the KITPC program: AdS/CFT and Novel Approaches to Hadron and Heavy Ion Physics (Beijing, China, 2010)
- Fermions in a holographic p-wave superfluid at the Imperial College String Seminar (London, UK, 2010)
- Lectures on flavor superfluidity & superconductivity at the Fifth Aegean Summer School (Adamas, Milos Island, Greece, 2009)
- AdS/CFT overview talk at the EMMI-workshop: Quarks, Hadrons & Phases of QCD (St.Goar, Germany, 2009)
- Hydrodynamics, quasinormal modes & spontaneous symmetry breaking at the Fluid/Gravity Workshop (Munich, Germany, 2009)
- AdS/CFT and thermal properties of strongly coupled systems at the workshop "Numerical and Conceptual Issues in Relativistic Hydrodynamics" (Frankfurt, Germany, 2007)