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Carlo Rovelli is affiliated with Aix-Marseille University in France and specializes in physics and astronomy, with a focus on several subfields including atomic and molecular physics and optics, astronomy and astrophysics, statistical and nonlinear physics, nuclear and high energy physics, and the history and philosophy of science.

Their research covers multiple main topics: quantum mechanics and applications, noncommutative and quantum gravity theories, cosmology and gravitation theories, black holes and theoretical physics, quantum electrodynamics and the Casimir effect, philosophy and history of science, and relativity and gravitational theory.

Recent notable papers include the following:

  • "Locally Mediated Entanglement in Linearized Quantum Gravity" (2023), published in Physical Review Letters
  • "Relational Quantum Mechanics is About Facts, Not States: A Reply to Pienaar and Brukner" (2022), published in Foundations of Physics
  • "Information is Physical: Cross-Perspective Links in Relational Quantum Mechanics" (2023), published in Philosophy of Physics
  • "Geometry of the black-to-white hole transition within a single asymptotic region" (2023), published in Physical Review D
  • "End of a black hole's evaporation" (2021), published in Physical Review D

Their frequent coauthors include Marios Christodoulou, Andrea Di Biagio, Richard Howl, Francesca Vidotto, and Farshid Soltani, reflecting collaborative work primarily in the areas of quantum gravity and theoretical physics.

The primary publication venues for their work include arXiv, Physical Review D, Philosophy of Physics, PhilSci-Archive, and Foundations of Physics.

Carlo Rovelli has also contributed to several book publications across different publishers. With Cambridge University Press, they published "General Relativity: The Essentials" and "Vision," both in 2021. They have also published two editions of "Time and Science" in 2022 with WORLD SCIENTIFIC (EUROPE) eBooks, and a forthcoming book titled "Sept brèves leçons de physique" is expected from Groupe Flammarion in 2025.

Best Publications

  • Discreteness of area and volume in quantum gravity

    Carlo Rovelli;Lee Smolin

  • Relational quantum mechanics

    Carlo Rovelli

  • Loop space representation of quantum general relativity

    Carlo Rovelli;Lee Smolin;Lee Smolin;Lee Smolin

  • Loop quantum gravity

    Carlo Rovelli

  • Spin networks and quantum gravity.

    Carlo Rovelli;Lee Smolin;Lee Smolin

  • Black Hole Entropy from Loop Quantum Gravity.

    Carlo Rovelli

  • LQG vertex with finite Immirzi parameter

    Jonathan Engle;Etera Livine;Roberto Pereira;Carlo Rovelli

  • Search for invisible decays of Higgs bosons in the vector boson fusion and associated ZH production modes

    S. Chatrchyan;V. Khachatryan;A. M. Sirunyan;A. Tumasyan

  • What Is Observable in Classical and Quantum Gravity

    Carlo Rovelli

  • Knot theory and quantum gravity.

    Carlo Rovelli;Lee Smolin

  • Time in quantum gravity: An hypothesis.

    Carlo Rovelli

  • Weaving a classical metric with quantum threads

    Abhay Ashtekar;Abhay Ashtekar;Abhay Ashtekar;Carlo Rovelli;Carlo Rovelli;Carlo Rovelli;Lee Smolin;Lee Smolin;Lee Smolin

  • Partial observables

    Carlo Rovelli

  • Quantum mechanics without time: A model.

    Carlo Rovelli;Carlo Rovelli

  • 'Sum over surfaces' form of loop quantum gravity

    Michael P. Reisenberger;Michael P. Reisenberger;Carlo Rovelli;Carlo Rovelli;Carlo Rovelli

  • Loop-quantum-gravity vertex amplitude

    Jonathan Engle;Roberto Pereira;Carlo Rovelli

  • Graviton propagator from background-independent quantum gravity

    Carlo Rovelli

  • Planck stars

    Carlo Rovelli;Francesca Vidotto

  • Search for the standard model Higgs boson decaying into two photons in pp collisions at s=7TeV

    S. Chatrchyan;V. Khachatryan;A. M. Sirunyan;A. Tumasyan

  • A theory of everything

    Gerard 't Hooft;Leonard Susskind;Edward Witten;Masataka Fukugita

Frequent Co-Authors

Lee Smolin
Lee Smolin Perimeter Institute
Abhay Ashtekar
Abhay Ashtekar Pennsylvania State University
Ezra T. Newman
Ezra T. Newman University of Pittsburgh
Kirill Krasnov
Kirill Krasnov University of Nottingham
Vlatko Vedral
Vlatko Vedral University of Oxford
Gerard 't Hooft
Gerard 't Hooft Utrecht University
Cristina Bicchieri
Cristina Bicchieri University of Pennsylvania
Alberto Mantovani
Alberto Mantovani Humanitas University
John Paul Chou
John Paul Chou Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

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