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Professor, New High Energy Theory Center (NHETC)
and Department of Physics & Astronomy, Rutgers University
Research projects
- First principles cosmology
(2020–)
A highly symmetric classical universe with dark matter as a coherent Standard Model effect.
Sadly, the classical cosmology is unstable to local fluctuations.
- Quantum field theories of extended objects
(2016–)
A new class of quantum field theories of (n−1)-dimensional extended objects in 2n space-time dimensions.
- Asymptotically large-scale quantum computers
(2005–)
Argues that asymptotically large scale quantum computers must be one dimensional physical systems near a critical point.
And that the fundamental physical design principles should be based on entropy flow in near-critical quantum circuits.
- A theory of large distance physics
(1978–)
The renormalization group flow of 2d quantum field theory produces solutions to Einstein's equation.
This became part of string theory in the early 1980s.
In 2002, I proposed a 2d field theory — the λ-model — that produces a space-time quantum field theory at large distance and a quantum string background at short distance.
I have been unable to derive testable predictions from it.
Papers
Talks