5 papers
On Perturbatively Dressed Observables
Clifford Cheung, Allic Sivaramakrishnan, Jordan Wilson-Gerow +1
A central lesson of gravity is that local observables are ill-defined. Coordinates themselves are a redundancy of description, so any particular point in spacetime is only meaningf…
Conservative Dynamics of Relativistic Binaries Beyond Einstein Gravity
Jordan Wilson-Gerow
We study the conservative dynamics of spinless compact objects in a general effective theory of gravity which includes a metric and an arbitrary number of scalar fields, through $\…
On the Motion of Compact Objects in Relativistic Viscous Fluids
Beka Modrekiladze, Ira Z. Rothstein, Jordan Wilson-Gerow
We present a world-line effective field theory of compact objects moving relativistically through a viscous fluid. The theory is valid when velocity gradients are small compared to…
Gravitational Scattering and Beyond from Extreme Mass Ratio Effective Field Theory
Clifford Cheung, Julio Parra-Martinez, Ira Z. Rothstein +2
We explore a recently proposed effective field theory describing electromagnetically or gravitationally interacting massive particles in an expansion about their mass ratio, also k…
Decoherence by warm horizons
Jordan Wilson-Gerow, Annika Dugad, Yanbei Chen
Recently Danielson, Satishchandran, and Wald (DSW) have shown that quantum superpositions held outside of Killing horizons will decohere at a steady rate. This occurs because of th…