Raphael Bousso

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Raphael Bousso (* 1971 or 1972) is a theoretical physicist who has made contributions to the holographic principle and deals with quantum gravity , string theory and cosmology .

Bousso was in 1997 at the University of Cambridge ( St. John's College ) with Stephen Hawking doctorate (pair creation of black holes in cosmology). He was a post-doctoral student at Stanford University and the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics in Santa Barbara, California . In 2002/03 he was a fellow at Harvard University (and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study there) and in 2003 he went to the University of California, Berkeley , where he became a professor.

He is known for his covariant formulation of the Bekenstein limit . Bousso, Horacio Casini , Juan Maldacena and Zachary Fisher also gave a quantum theoretical explanation for this (like Casini before with the Bekenstein limit).

He is also known for his work on String Theory Landscape (partly with Joseph Polchinski ), the question of how the known cosmos was selected from among the many possible vacuums in string theory and how the small size of the cosmological constant , the existence of dark energy , the Hierarchy problem and other can be explained.

He also deals with the information paradox of black holes and was involved in Polchinski's firewall discussion.

Fonts

  • The holographic principle. In: Reviews of Modern Physics. Volume 74, 2002, pp. 825-874, Arxiv
  • with Joseph Polchinski: The string theory landscape. In: Scientific American. Volume 291, September 2004, pp. 60-69
  • Holographic Probabilities in Eternal Inflation. In: Physical Review Letters. Volume 97, 2006, p. 191302, Arxiv
  • The Cosmological Constant Problem, Dark Energy, and the Landscape of String Theory. In: Subnuclear Physics: Past, Present and Future. Pontificial Academy of Sciences, Vatican (October 2011), Arxiv
  • with Ben Freivogel, Stefan Leichenauer, Vladimir Rosenhaus: A geometric solution to the coincidence problem, and the size of the landscape as the origin of hierarchy. In: Physical Review Letters. Volume 106, 2011, p. 101301, Arxiv
  • Frozen Vacuum. In: Physical Review Letters. Volume 112, 2014, p. 041102, Arxiv
  • TASI Lectures on the Cosmological Constant. 2007, Arxiv
  • with Ben Freivogel, I-Sheng Yang: Eternal inflation, the inside story. In: Physical Review D. Volume 74, 2006, 103516, Arxiv
  • with Ben Freivogel, Stefan Leichenauer, Vladimir Rosenhaus: Eternal inflation predicts that time will end. In: Physical Review D. Volume 83, 2011, 023525, Arxiv

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ According to the interview in Scientific American 2013, then 31 years old
  2. ↑ Dissertations DAMTP Cambridge ( Memento of the original from January 4, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.damtp.cam.ac.uk
  3. ^ Bousso: Journal of high energy physics. 9907: 004, 1999, Arxiv
  4. ↑ Bousso, Casini, Fisher, Zachary: Proof of a Quantum Bousso bound. In: Physical Review D . Volume 90, 2014, 044002
  5. ↑ Bousso: Complementarity is not enough. In: Physical Review D. Volume 87, 2012, Arxiv
personal data
SURNAME Bousso, Raphael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION theoretical physicist
DATE OF BIRTH 1971 or 1972