Olaf Dreyer | |
|---|---|
 Dreyer at Harvard University | |
| Born | 1969 Hamburg, Germany |
| Alma mater | Pennsylvania State University (PhD 2001) |
| Known for | "internal relativity" |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Theoretical physics, quantum gravity |
Olaf Dreyer (born 1969, Hamburg) is a German theoretical physicist whose research interests include quantum gravity and the quantum measurement problem. Dreyer received his Ph.D. in quantum gravity in 2001 from the Pennsylvania State University[1] under the direction of Abhay Ashtekar.[2] Subsequently, he has held a postdoctoral fellowship at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Waterloo, Ontario, a Marie Curie Fellowship at Imperial College, London, and a postdoctoral fellowship at the Center for Theoretical Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
In 2002 Dreyer proposed[3] a connection between the Barbero-Immirzi parameter in loop quantum gravity and the asymptotic behaviour of black hole quasinormal modes (in numerical general relativity), building on previous insights due to Shahar Hod.[4] Subsequently, Lubos Motl proved that the exact asymptotic behaviour of the quasinormal modes of the Schwarzschild black hole was as predicted numerically.[5]
Dreyer has developed an approach to quantum gravity known as "internal relativity".[6]
Notes
- ↑ "Press release for "The Trouble with Physics" published by Houghton Mifflin Company : Hot Young Physicists". Retrieved 22 January 2011.
- ↑ Baez, John (2002). "This Week's Finds in Mathematical Physics (Week 189)". Retrieved 22 January 2011.
- ↑ Dreyer, Olaf (2003), "Quasinormal Modes, the Area Spectrum, and Black Hole Entropy", Phys. Rev. Lett., 90 (8): 081301, arXiv:gr-qc/0211076v1, Bibcode:2003PhRvL..90h1301D, doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.90.081301, PMID 12633415
- ↑ Hod, Shahar (1998), "Bohr's Correspondence Principle and The Area Spectrum of Quantum Black Holes", Phys. Rev. Lett., 81 (20): 4293–4296, arXiv:gr-qc/9812002v2, Bibcode:1998PhRvL..81.4293H, doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.81.4293
- ↑ Motl, Lubos (2003), "An analytical computation of asymptotic Schwarzschild quasinormal frequencies", Adv. Theor. Math. Phys., 6 (6): 1135–1162, arXiv:gr-qc/0212096v3, Bibcode:2002gr.qc....12096M, doi:10.4310/ATMP.2002.v6.n6.a3
- ↑ Marshall, Michael (4 March 2010), "Knowing the mind of God: Seven theories of everything", New Scientist
External links
- "xQIT:: Center for Extreme Quantum Information Theory at MIT]". Archived from the original on 14 July 2010. Retrieved 22 January 2011.
- Becker, Kate (2007), It's all relative, The Foundational Questions Institute, retrieved 22 January 2011