Aron C. Wall

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Aron C. Wall (born June 7, 1984 ) is an American theoretical physicist who deals with quantum gravity (especially the holographic principle ) and thermodynamics of black holes .

He is the son of programmer Larry Wall . He studied from 2001 at St. John's College in Santa Fe (New Mexico) and graduated with a bachelor's degree in 2005. In 2011, Wall received his PhD from the University of Maryland with Ted Jacobson . As a post-doctoral student he was at the University of California, Santa Barbara (Simons Postdoctoral Fellow) until 2014 , then at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton University until 2017 and from 2017 at Stanford University (Stanford Institute for Theoretical Physics). He has been a lecturer at Cambridge University (DAMTP) since 2019 .

In 2016, together with Ping Dao and Daniel Louis Jafferis, he proposed a mechanism for traversable wormholes without exotic matter. It is based on the interpretation of wormholes by pairs of quantum entangled particles (EPR) by Leonard Susskind and Juan Maldacena (ER-EPR conjecture), only that Wall and colleagues did not use the usual Einstein-Rosen bridges (ER). They found that their wormholes provide a description that is mathematically equivalent to quantum teleportation .

In 2013 he received the Bergmann-Wheeler Thesis Prize. In 2019 he received the New Horizons in Physics Prize for fundamental insights into quantum information, quantum field theory and gravitation (laudation).

Like his father, he is active in the New Life Church of the Nazarene and runs a blog, Undivided Looking, on theology and physics.

Fonts (selection)

  • The Generalized Second Law implies a Quantum Singularity Theorem, Class. Quant. Gravity, Volume 30, 2013, p. 165003, Arxiv
  • with Ping Dao, Daniel Jafferis: Traversable Wormholes via a Double Trace Deformation, JHEP 2017, Arxiv 2016
  • A survey of black hole thermodynamics, Arxiv 2018

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Natalie Wolchover: Newfound Wormhole Allows Information to Escape Black Holes , Quanta Magazine, October 23, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Wall, Aron C.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American theoretical physicist
DATE OF BIRTH June 7, 1984