Hanno Sahlmann

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Hanno Sahlmann (* in Hamburg ) is a German theoretical physicist who deals with loop quantum gravity.

Life

Sahlmann studied at the University of Göttingen with a diploma in 1999 and a doctorate in 2002 from the University of Potsdam (Coupling Matter to Loop Quantum Gravity). As a post-doctoral student he was at the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics in Potsdam / Golm, where he was already doing his dissertation with Thomas Thiemann , at the Pennsylvania State University , the Spinoza Institute in Utrecht and in 2008 at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology . In 2010 he became a professor at the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg .

research

Sahlmann recognized around 2000 that the uniqueness of the quantization rules of loop quantum gravity could be shown, but the proof dragged on for several years and was published in 2006 (Ashtekar called the LOST result). (Christian Fleischhack managed this independently).

With Thomas Thiemann and O. Winkler, he proposed a semiclassical approach to space-time based on loop quantum gravity.

In 2005 he received the Physics Prize from the Göttingen Academy of Sciences for his important contributions to loop quantum gravity .

Fonts

  • Loop quantum gravity, in: Jeff Murugan, Amanda Weltman, George FR Ellis (Eds.): Foundations of space and time. Reflections on quantum gravity, Cambridge UP 2012, pp. 185-210, Arxiv

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ biographical information on the page of the graduates of the Institute for Theoretical Physics in Göttingen
  2. ↑ They were from the beginning of the 1990s Abhay Ashtekar , Jerzy Lewandowski and Chris Isham set
  3. ↑ J. Lewandowski, A. Okolow, H. Sahlmann, T. Thiemann: Uniqueness of diffeomorphism invariant states on holonomy-flux algebras, Comm. Math. Phys., Vol. 267, 2006, pp. 703-733, Arxiv
  4. ↑ Fleischhack, Representations of the Weyl algebra in quantum geometry, Comm. Math. Phys., Vol. 285, 2009, pp. 67-140, Arxiv
  5. ↑ Martin Bojowald, Back to the Big Bang, Fischer, 2008
  6. ↑ H. Sahlmann, T. Thiemann, O. Winkler: Coherent States for Canonical Quantum General Relativity and the Infinite Tensor Product Extension, Nucl. Phys., B, Vol. 606, 2001, pp. 404-440, Arxiv
  7. ^ Sahlmann, Thiemann, Towards the QFT on curved spacetime limit of QGR, Part 1,2, Class. Quant. Gravity, Volume 23, 2006, pp. 867-908, 909-954, Part 1, Arxiv , Part 2, Arxiv
personal data
SURNAME Sahlmann, Hanno
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theoretical physicist
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg