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Slow-mode rarefaction and compression fronts in the Hermean magnetosphere: From MESSENGER insights to future BepiColombo observations
J. Varela, F. Pantellini
Context. Standing slow-mode rarefaction and compression front structures may appear in the Mercury magnetosheath under particular solar wind conditions. Aims. The aim of the study…
Dark Matter Triggers of Supernovae
Peter W. Graham, Surjeet Rajendran, Jaime Varela
The transit of primordial black holes through a white dwarf causes localized heating around the trajectory of the black hole through dynamical friction. For sufficiently massive bl…
Semi-Classical Field Theory as Decoherence Free Subspaces
Jaime Varela
We formulate semi-classical field theory as an approximate decoherence-free-subspace of a finite-dimensional quantum-gravity hilbert space. A complementarity construction can be re…
Black Holes or Firewalls: A Theory of Horizons
Yasunori Nomura, Jaime Varela, Sean J. Weinberg
We present a quantum theory of black hole (and other) horizons, in which the standard assumptions of complementarity are preserved without contradicting information theoretic consi…
Low Energy Description of Quantum Gravity and Complementarity
Yasunori Nomura, Jaime Varela, Sean J. Weinberg
We consider a framework in which low energy dynamics of quantum gravity is described preserving locality, and yet taking into account the effects that are not captured by the naive…
A Note on (No) Firewalls: The Entropy Argument
Yasunori Nomura, Jaime Varela
An argument for firewalls based on entropy relations is refuted.
Black Holes, Information, and Hilbert Space for Quantum Gravity
Yasunori Nomura, Jaime Varela, Sean J. Weinberg
A coarse-grained description for the formation and evaporation of a black hole is given within the framework of a unitary theory of quantum gravity preserving locality, without dro…
Anomalous near-field heat transfer between a cylinder and a perforated surface
Alejandro W. Rodriguez, M. T. Homer Reid, Jaime Varela +3
We predict that the radiative heat-transfer rate between a cylinder and a perforated surface depends non-monotonically on their separation. This anomalous behavior, which arises du…
Complementarity Endures: No Firewall for an Infalling Observer
Yasunori Nomura, Jaime Varela, Sean J. Weinberg
We argue that the complementarity picture, as interpreted as a reference frame change represented in quantum gravitational Hilbert space, does not suffer from the "firewall paradox…
Casimir micro-sphere diclusters and three-body effects in fluids
Jaime Varela, Alejandro W. Rodriguez, Alexander P. McCauley +1
Our previous article [Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 060401 (2010)] predicted that Casimir forces induced by the material-dispersion properties of certain dielectrics can give rise to stabl…