Contact Information
Matthew Headrick
Abelson 310
(781) 736-2858
mph@brandeis.edu
Matthew Headrick
Assistant Professor of Physics
Ph.D., Harvard University, 2003
Matthew Headrick's research interests lie in string theory and related areas of quantum field theory, general relativity, geometry, and quantum information theory. His current research is primarily focused on the intersection of quantum gravity, quantum field theory, and quantum information theory. He is specifically interested in information-theoretic aspects of holographic field theories (field theories that are dual to higher-dimensional gravitational theories), such as entanglement entropies and related quantities. He has also recently worked on problems in elliptic numerical relativity, which involves finding solutions to the Einstein equation of general relativity representing static black holes (typically in higher dimensions) and compactification manifolds, with applications to string theory.
Sample of Recent Publications
"Holographic mutual information is monogamous," by P. Hayden, M. Headrick, and A. Maloney, accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. D, eprint:1107.2940 [hep-th]
"Instantaneous thermalization in holographic plasmas," by H. Ebrahim and M. Headrick, eprint: 1010.5443 [hep-th]
"Entanglement Renyi entropies in holographic theories," by M. Headrick, Phys. Rev. D82: 126010 (2010) eprint: 1006.0047 [hep-th]
"Energy functionals for Calabi-Yau metrics," by M. Headrick and A. Nassar, accepted for publication in Adv. Theor. Math. Phys., eprint: 0908.2635 [hep-th]
"A new approach to static numerical relativity, and its application to Kaluza-Klein black holes," by M. Headrick, S. Kitchen, and T. Wiseman, Class. Quant. Grav. 27: 035002 (2010), eprint: 0905.1822 [gr-qc] [chosen by the editors as an IOPselect article and included in the annual highlights collection for 2009–2010]