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Prof. Dr. José Velhinho
Prof. Dr. José Velhinho
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Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade da Beira Interior, Rua Marquês d’Ávila e Bolama, 6201-001 Covilhã, Portugal
Interests: mathematical physics; loop quantum gravity; quantum cosmology; quantum fields in curved spacetime
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Dear Colleagues,
Experimental and observational tests are key in any area of physics, including quantum gravity, where the difference in scales between the Planck scale and directly accessible energy scales poses a well-known challenge to attempts that bridge the gap between theory development and observations.
Nevertheless, promising ideas to bridge that gap have been developed in the last few years, including:
- Effects of quantum gravity in the early universe, for instance, implications for the cosmic microwave background
- Constraints on quantum gravity arising in the late universe, e.g., regarding the implications of (dynamical) dark energy for quantum gravity
- Understanding restrictions on particle physics that arise from a given underlying microphysics including quantum gravity
- Tests making use of the strong gravity regime now accessible through gravitational wave observations and images of black holes, to constrain potential (non-local) effects from quantum gravity, e.g., in black hole spacetimes
- Novel ideas to test the effects of (classical) gravity in (table-top) experiments with quantum system,s as a step forward in understanding the interplay of gravity and quantum physics
This feature paper collection will provide a broad overview of the current status and future prospects of probes of quantum gravity. Contributions are invited from all theoretical approaches to quantum gravity, as well as from a perspective focused on experiments/observations, where novel opportunities for quantum gravity could arise. In particular, contributions that bridge (perceived) boundaries between fields are very highly welcomed!
Prof. Dr. José Velhinho
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Published Papers (5 papers)
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Noncommutative Corrections to the Minimal Surface Areas of the Pure AdS Spacetime and Schwarzschild-AdS Black Hole
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Zhang-Cheng Liu and Yan-Gang Miao
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Based on the perturbation expansion, we compute the noncommutative corrections to the minimal surface areas of the pure AdS spacetime and Schwarzschild-AdS black hole, where the noncommutative background is suitably constructed in terms of the Poincaré coordinate system. In particular, we find a
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Based on the perturbation expansion, we compute the noncommutative corrections to the minimal surface areas of the pure AdS spacetime and Schwarzschild-AdS black hole, where the noncommutative background is suitably constructed in terms of the Poincaré coordinate system. In particular, we find a reasonable tetrad with subtlety, which not only matches the metrics of the pure AdS spacetime and Schwarzschild-AdS black hole in the commutative case, but also makes the corrections real rather than complex in the noncommutative case. For the pure AdS spacetime, the nocommutative effect is only a logarithmic term, while for the Schwarzschild-AdS black hole, it contains a logarithmic contribution plus both a mass term and a noncommutative parameter related term. Furthermore, we show that the holographic entanglement entropy with noncommutativity obeys a relation which is similar to the first law of thermodynamics in the pure AdS spacetime.
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Effective Actions for Regge Piecewise Flat Quantum Gravity
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Aleksandar Miković
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We review the construction of the path integral and the corresponding effective action for the Regge formulation of General Relativity under the assumption that the short-distance structure of the spacetime is not a smooth 4-manifold, but a piecewise linear manifold based on a
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We review the construction of the path integral and the corresponding effective action for the Regge formulation of General Relativity under the assumption that the short-distance structure of the spacetime is not a smooth 4-manifold, but a piecewise linear manifold based on a triangulation of a smooth 4-manifold. We point out that the exponentially damped 4-volume path-integral measure does not give a finite path integral, although it can be used for the construction of the perturbative effective action. We modify the 4-volume measure by multiplying it by an inverse power of the product of the edge-lengths such that the new measure gives a finite path integral while it retains all the nice features of the unmodified measure.
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Can We Detect the Quantum Nature of Weak Gravitational Fields?
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Francesco Coradeschi, Antonia Micol Frassino, Thiago Guerreiro, Jennifer Rittenhouse West and Enrico Junior Schioppa
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A theoretical framework for the quantization of gravity has been an elusive Holy Grail since the birth of quantum theory and general relativity. While generations of scientists have attempted to find solutions to this deep riddle, an alternative path built upon the idea
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A theoretical framework for the quantization of gravity has been an elusive Holy Grail since the birth of quantum theory and general relativity. While generations of scientists have attempted to find solutions to this deep riddle, an alternative path built upon the idea that experimental evidence could determine whether gravity is quantized has been decades in the making. The possibility of an experimental answer to the question of the quantization of gravity is of renewed interest in the era of gravitational wave detectors. We review and investigate an important subset of phenomenological quantum gravity, detecting quantum signatures of weak gravitational fields in table-top experiments and interferometers.
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Consistency of Cubic Galileon Cosmology: Model-Independent Bounds from Background Expansion and Perturbative Analyses
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Suddhasattwa Brahma and Md. Wali Hossain
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We revisit the cosmological dynamics of the cubic Galileon model in light of the recently proposed model-independent analyses of the Pantheon supernova data. At the background level, it is shown to be compatible with data and preferred over standard quintessence models. Furthermore, the
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We revisit the cosmological dynamics of the cubic Galileon model in light of the recently proposed model-independent analyses of the Pantheon supernova data. At the background level, it is shown to be compatible with data and preferred over standard quintessence models. Furthermore, the model is shown to be consistent with the trans-Planckian censorship conjecture (as well as other Swampland conjectures). It is shown that for the given parametrization, the model fails to satisfy the bounds on the reconstructed growth index derived from the Pantheon data set at the level of linear perturbations.
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Curved Momentum Space, Locality, and Generalized Space-Time
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José Manuel Carmona, José Luis Cortés and José Javier Relancio
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We establish the correspondence between two apparently unrelated but in fact complementary approaches of a relativistic deformed kinematics: the geometric properties of momentum space and the loss of absolute locality in canonical space-time, which can be restored with the introduction of a generalized
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We establish the correspondence between two apparently unrelated but in fact complementary approaches of a relativistic deformed kinematics: the geometric properties of momentum space and the loss of absolute locality in canonical space-time, which can be restored with the introduction of a generalized space-time. This correspondence is made explicit for the case of
-Poincaré kinematics and compared with its properties in the Hopf algebra framework.
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