Talks

While quantum correlations between two spacelike-separated systems are fully encoded by the bipartite density operator associated with the joint system, what operator encodes quantum correlations across space and time? I will describe the general theory of such "quantum states over time" as well as a canonical example that encodes the expectation values of certain observables measured sequentially in time. The latter extends the theory of pseudo-density matrices to arbitrary dimensions, not necessarily restricted to multi-qubit systems. In addition, quantum states over time admit a natural proposal for a general-purpose quantum Bayes' rule. Our results specialize to many well-studied examples, such as the state-update rule, the two-state vector formalism and weak values, and the Petz recovery map. This talk is based on joint work with James Fullwood and the two papers: arXiv: 2212.08088 [quant-ph] and 2405.17555 [quant-ph].

Hot viscous plasmas unavoidably emit a gravitational wave background, similar to electromagnetic black body radiation. In this talk we will discuss the contribution from hidden particles to the diffuse background emitted by the primordial plasma in the early universe. While this contribution can easily dominate over that from Standard Model particles, both are capped by a generic upper bound that makes them difficult to detect with interferometers in the foreseeable future. We will illustrate our results on the examples of axion-like particles and heavy neutral leptons. We will also discuss how this bound affects the previous estimates of gravitational wave backgrounds from particle decays out of thermal equilibrium.

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I will review various mechanisms and detection strategies of precursor emission to black holes and neutron stars mergers. I will also discuss other peculiar physical processes at the intersection of electromagnetism, classical General Relativity, and the physics of continuous media.

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