Departmental Groups
Interdisciplinary Research
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Curtis Callan
I am mainly interested in understanding the workings of the quantum
field theories which underlie the phenomena of particle physics. In
recent years this has lead me to study issues in string theory (the
construction of conformal field theories corresponding to solitons of
various kinds) and in quantum gravity (the problem of Hawking
radiation and the endpoint of black hole evaporation).
I have an
avocational interest in the application of field theory techniques to
condensed matter problems that has led to work in dissipative quantum
mechanics and the quantum mechanics of the fracture of materials.
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- "Evanescent Black Holes," C. Callan, S. Giddings, J. Harvey and A.
Strominger,
Phys. Rev.
D45, R1005 (1992).
- "On Geometric Entropy", C. Callan and F. Wilczek,
Phys. Lett.
B333, 55 (1994).
- "Exact Solution of a Boundary Conformal Field Theory", C. Callan,
I. Klebanov, A. Ludwig and J. Maldacena,
Nuc. Phys.
B422, 417 (1994).
- "It's A Snap: Instantons and the Rupture of Polymers", in "Topics
in Quantum Field Theory: Modern Methods in Fundamental Physics"
D.H.Tchrakian ed., World Scientific Publishers 1995.
- "D-Brane Approach to Black Hole Quantum Mechanics" C. Callan
and J. Maldacena, hep-th/9602043 and
Nuc. Phys.
B472, 591 (1996).
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