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Quantum Properties of Spacetime
May 29, 2020
FQXi's Francesca Vidotto talks in-depth to JSTOR Daily about feminist epistemology, white holes, string theory, and her book (with Carlo Rovelli) on loop quantum gravity.
Gravity Winners
May 29, 2020
The winners of the Gravity Research Foundation essay contest have been announced. Congrats to our members who have won prizes: Eduardo Guendelman (for "Lorentzian Quintessential Inflation" with David Benisty), Craig Hogan (for "Cosmological Constant in Coherent Quantum Gravity"), Thanu Padmanabhan (for "Principle of Equivalence at Planck Scales and the Zero-Point-Length of Spacetime"), and Maulik Parikh & Frank Wilczek (first prize for "The Noise of Gravitons" with George Zhariade).
INSPYRE!
Mar 23, 2020
FQXi is proud to support INSPYRE 2020, “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the…Universe’”, which is dedicated to the hottest topics from particle physics to cosmology. This year lectures (in English) are online from 30th March to 3rd April. Open to all, especially students & teachers! The course is organised by FQXi's Catalina Oana Curceanu, senior researcher at the National Laboratory of Frascati (LNF), and you can read more here.
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Dear FQXi , I love your platform like you know it, I work my theory and have improved a lot here and on arxiv and in the books, it is important for me but not like the Project, international, universal that I work about.
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A tensor network approach to an AdS/QCFT...
By JENS EISERT
A tensor network approach to an AdS/QCFT correspondence": A talk held at "Tensor Networks: from Simulations to Holography III" (Perimeter Institute, November 16, 2020 - November 20, 2020).
Abstract: AdS/CFT endows gravity in anti-de...
Quantum Machine Learning by Jens Eisert
By JENS EISERT
This is a recording of a talk held in Erlangen on occasion of the conference on "Machine Learning for Quantum Technology" in May 2019.
Keywords: #IAF #Information_As_Fuel #Eisert #Quantum_Technology #Quantum ...
How does an Isolated Quantum System Relax by Jörg...
By JOSH HOFFMAN
Jörg Schmiedmayer (Physics, Vienna University of Technology) How does an Isolated Quantum System Relax
https://www.youtube.com/embed/UVFSr4hLsU0
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Thank you to Dr. Kwan Chiang for suggesting a discussion of their recent paper Anatomy of spacetime and possible origins of internal symmetry and all particle quantum numbers which was published in Physics Essays in...
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Dear FQXi , I love your platform like you know it, I work my theory and have improved a lot here and on arxiv and in the books, it is important for me but not like the Project, international, universal that I work about.
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'Artificial atoms' allow physicists to manipulate individual electrons—and could help to reduce energy wastage in electronic devices.
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Can Choices Curve Spacetime?
By SOPHIE HEBDEN • Mar 16, 2021
Two teams are developing ways to detect quantum-gravitational effects in the lab.
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Read article
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