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Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Instituto de Física de São Carlos (IFSC) (Institutional affiliation from the last research proposal) Birthplace: Brazil
Bachelor's degree in Physics from Instituto de Física of the University of São Paulo (IFUSP) (1997), PhD at Instituto de Física Teórica (IFT) of the São Paulo State University (UNESP) (2001), postdoc (US-NSF) fellowship at University of Wisconsin Milwaukee (UWM; 2001-2003) with Prof. Leonard Parker. Since 2005, Professor at the Instituto de Física de São Carlos (IFSC-USP). Main area of research: Fields in curved spacetimes. Main interests: vacuum energy in curved spacetimes, accelerated cosmic expansion, Unruh effect, gravity-induced instabilities. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)
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The influence of gravity on quantum phenomena and vice-versa can be analyzed using the formalism of Quantum Field Theory in Curved Spacetimes (QFTCS), in which matter and other interaction fields are quantized on a curved background spacetime. Using this formalism we recently unveiled the "vacuum awakening" mechanism, according to which well-behaved gravitational fields can trigger an exp…
The proposed Scientific Initiation project aims to introduce students to the study of black holes and the laws that govern them, in particular the four mechanical laws that led to the emergence of "black hole thermodynamics". This is an active area of research, with open questions directly linked to the quantum aspects of gravity. Although students are not expected to delve into these qua…
This undergraduate research project aims at providing the candidate with a solid basis on advanced geometrical tools in use in theoretical physics, particularly on those which naturally arise in metric theories of gravity - like General Relativity (GR). Since the candidate has already been introduced to the formalism of GR, this project focuses on the construction of the most general fiel…
The "vacuum awakening" effect has been extensively studied in the context of scalar fields. In particular, its connection with spontaneous scalarization has been established in the astrophysical scenario of compact objects, showing that vacuum fluctuations of a quantized scalar field seed, after decoherence, classical perturbations which then evolve to the scalarized configuration. This p…
The main goal of this project is providing the candidate with a solid understanding of General Relativity (GR). For this purpose, besides traditional texts on GR, we shall analyze specific topics which still cause confusion in the literature. Some of them are quasi-rigid bodies in GR, the appearance and definition of "hidden momentum" in relativistic systems, and the "swimming" effect in …
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General Relativity stands as the last classical theory not yet supplanted by a quantum description of a (known) fundamental interaction: gravity. In the complete absence of experimental landmarks, the quest for a quantum theory which fully encompasses gravity has attracted the attention of theoreticians for almost a century now, with only few advances. In this arid search for a quantum t…
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