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Research Summary

My research interests are in the interplay of gravity and the quantum, focusing on curved spacetime quantum field theory but also including aspects of quantum gravity. The central theme,… read more

Recent Publications

• JORMA LOUKO and SAMUEL D. UPTON, 2018. Low-energy Lorentz violation from high-energy modified dispersion in inertial and circular motion Physical Review D. 97, 025008
• KOLEKAR, SANVED and LOUKO, JORMA, 2018. Quantum memory for Rindler supertranslations PHYSICAL REVIEW D. 97(8), 085012
• BENITO JUÁREZ-AUBRY and JORMA LOUKO, 2018. Quantum fields during black hole formation: how good an approximation is the Unruh state? Journal of High Energy Physics. 2018(5), 140
• CARRINGTON, MARGARET E., KUNSTATTER, GABOR, LOUKO, JORMA and ZHOU, L. J., 2018. Smooth and sharp creation of a spherical shell for a (3+1)-dimensional quantum field Phys. Rev. D. 98, 024035

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Current Research

• My research interests are in the interplay of gravity and the quantum, focusing on curved spacetime quantum field theory but also including aspects of quantum gravity.

• The central theme, building on Hawking's 1974 prediction of black hole radiation, is the search for novel quantum phenomena associated with global properties of spacetime and with motion of observers in spacetime, as well as the search for laboratory systems that exhibit similar phenomena. At a fundamental level, the study of these phenomena provides guidance for developing theories of the quantum mechanical structure of spacetime, including the puzzle of the microphysical origin of black hole entropy. At a more practical level, a theoretical control of the phenomena may have applications in quantum information processing in situations where gravity and relative motion are significant, such as quantum communication via satellites.

• My papers from INSPIRE.

• JORMA LOUKO and SAMUEL D. UPTON, 2018. Low-energy Lorentz violation from high-energy modified dispersion in inertial and circular motion Physical Review D. 97, 025008
• KOLEKAR, SANVED and LOUKO, JORMA, 2018. Quantum memory for Rindler supertranslations PHYSICAL REVIEW D. 97(8), 085012
• BENITO JUÁREZ-AUBRY and JORMA LOUKO, 2018. Quantum fields during black hole formation: how good an approximation is the Unruh state? Journal of High Energy Physics. 2018(5), 140
• CARRINGTON, MARGARET E., KUNSTATTER, GABOR, LOUKO, JORMA and ZHOU, L. J., 2018. Smooth and sharp creation of a spherical shell for a (3+1)-dimensional quantum field Phys. Rev. D. 98, 024035
• BENKEL, ROBERT, BHATTACHARYYA, JISHNU, LOUKO, JORMA, MATTINGLY, DAVID and SOTIRIOU, THOMAS P., 2018. Dynamical obstruction to perpetual motion from Lorentz-violating black holes Phys. Rev. D. 98, 024034
• L. J. ZHOU, MARGARET E. CARRINGTON, GABOR KUNSTATTER and JORMA LOUKO, 2017. Smooth and sharp creation of a pointlike source for a (3+1)-dimensional quantum field Physical Review D. 95(8), 085007
• JAN KOHLRUS, DAVID EDWARD BRUSCHI, JORMA LOUKO and IVETTE FUENTES, 2017. Quantum communications and quantum metrology in the spacetime of a rotating planet EPJ Quantum Technology. 4, 7
• ALEJANDRO POZAS-KERSTJENS, JORMA LOUKO and EDUARDO MARTÍN-MARTÍNEZ, 2017. Degenerate detectors are unable to harvest spacelike entanglement Physical Review D. 95, 105009
• SANVED KOLEKAR and JORMA LOUKO, 2017. Gravitational memory for uniformly accelerated observers Physical Review D. 96, 024054
• JORMA LOUKO and VLADIMIR TOUSSAINT, 2017. Unruh-DeWitt fermion detector on a (1+1)-dimensional cylindrical spacetime: Arbitrary worldlines and inequivalent spin structures In: Proceedings of the Fourteenth Marcel Grossmann Meeting on General Relativity (Rome, Italy, 12--18 July 2015). 2809-2815
• VIQAR HUSAIN and JORMA LOUKO, 2016. Low energy Lorentz violation from modified dispersion at high energies Physical Review Letters. 116, 061301
• CHRISTOPHER J FEWSTER, BENITO A JUÁREZ-AUBRY and JORMA LOUKO, 2016. Waiting for Unruh Classical and Quantum Gravity. 33, 165003
• JORMA LOUKO and VLADIMIR TOUSSAINT, 2016. Unruh-DeWitt detector’s response to fermions in flat spacetimes Physical Review D. 94, 064027
• FERREIRA, HUGO R C and LOUKO, JORMA, 2015. Renormalized vacuum polarization on rotating warped AdS3 black holes Physical Review D: Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology. 91, 024038
• DOUKAS, JASON and LOUKO, JORMA, 2015. Superconducting circuit boundary conditions beyond the dynamical Casimir effect Physical Review D: Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology. 91, 044010
• LOUKO, JORMA, 2015. Near-Dirichlet quantum dynamics for a p^3-corrected particle on an interval General Relativity and Gravitation. 47, 55
• EDUARDO MARTÍN-MARTÍNEZ and JORMA LOUKO, 2015. (1+1)D calculation provides evidence that quantum entanglement survives a firewall Physical Review Letters. 115, 031301
• KRZYSZTOF LOREK, JORMA LOUKO and ANDRZEJ DRAGAN, 2015. Ideal clocks—a convenient fiction Classical and Quantum Gravity. 32, 175003
• ERIC G BROWN and JORMA LOUKO, 2015. Smooth and sharp creation of a Dirichlet wall in 1+1 quantum field theory: how singular is the sharp creation limit? Journal of High Energy Physics. 1508, 061
• JORMA LOUKO, SAMUEL P PHILPOTT and MATTHEW D WALLER, 2014. Singularity resolution by lattice shifts in discretized quantum mechanics Physical Review D. 89, 044032
• HODGKINSON, LEE, LOUKO, JORMA and OTTEWILL, ADRIAN C., 2014. Static detectors and circular-geodesic detectors on the Schwarzschild black hole Phys. Rev. D. 89, 104002
• E. MARTÍN-MARTÍNEZ and J. LOUKO, 2014. Particle detectors and the zero mode of a quantum field Physical Review D: particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology. 90, 024015
• NG, KEITH K., HODGKINSON, LEE, LOUKO, JORMA, MANN, ROBERT B. and MARTIN-MARTINEZ, EDUARDO, 2014. Unruh-DeWitt detector response along static and circular-geodesic trajectories for Schwarzschild-anti-de Sitter black holes PHYSICAL REVIEW D. 90(6),
• LOUKO, JORMA, 2014. Unruh-DeWitt detector response across a Rindler firewall is finite Journal of High Energy Physics. 1409, 142
• B. A. JUÁREZ-AUBRY and J. LOUKO, 2014. Onset and decay of the 1+1 Hawking-Unruh effect: what the derivative-coupling detector saw Classical and Quantum Gravity. 31, 245007
• BARRETT, JOHN W, KERR, STEVEN and LOUKO, JORMA, 2013. A topological state sum model for fermions on the circle J. Phys. A: Math. Theor.. 46, 185201
• BRUSCHI, D.E., LOUKO, J., FACCIO, D. and FUENTES, I., 2013. Mode-mixing quantum gates and entanglement without particle creation in periodically accelerated cavities New Journal of Physics. 15(7), 073052
• D. E. BRUSCHI, J. LOUKO and D. FACCIO, 2013. Entanglement generation in relativistic cavity motion In: J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. (DICE2012 Spacetime – Matter – Quantum Mechanics: From the Planck Scale to Emergent Phenomena). 442. 012024 (8 pages)
• DAVID EDWARD BRUSCHI, ANDRZEJ DRAGAN, ANTONY R. LEE, IVETTE FUENTES and JORMA LOUKO, 2013. Relativistic Motion Generates Quantum Gates and Entanglement Resonances Physical Review Letters. 111, 090504
• NICOLAI FRIIS, ANTONY R. LEE and JORMA LOUKO, 2013. Scalar, spinor, and photon fields under relativistic cavity motion Physical Review D. 88, 064028
• BRUSCHI, D E and LOUKO, J, 2012. Charged Unruh effect on geon spacetimes In: Twelfth Marcel Grossmann Meeting on General Relativity (Paris, France, 12--18 July 2009). 2359-2361
• FRIIS, NICOLAI, LEE, ANTONY R., BRUSCHI, DAVID EDWARD and LOUKO, JORMA, 2012. Kinematic entanglement degradation of fermionic cavity modes Physical Review D. 85, 025012 [11 pages]
• BRUSCHI, D.E., FUENTES, I. and LOUKO, J., 2012. Voyage to Alpha Centauri: entanglement degradation of cavity modes due to motion Physical Review D. 85(6), 061701(R)
• FRIIS, N., BRUSCHI, D.E., LOUKO, J. and FUENTES, I., 2012. Motion generates entanglement Physical Review D: Particles, Fields, Gravitation, and Cosmology. 85(8), 081701
• G. KUNSTATTER and J. LOUKO, 2012. Boundary conditions in quantum mechanics on the discretized half-line J. Phys. A: Math. Theor.. 45(30), 305302 (18 pages)
• HODGKINSON, LEE and LOUKO, JORMA, 2012. How often does the Unruh-DeWitt detector click beyond four dimensions? Journal of Mathematical Physics. 53(8), 082301 (22 pages)
• BRUSCHI, D. E., DRAGAN, A., FUENTES, I. and LOUKO. J., 2012. Particle and antiparticle bosonic entanglement in noninertial frames Physical Review D: particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology. 86, 025026 (7 pages)
• HODGKINSON, L. and LOUKO. J., 2012. Static, stationary, and inertial Unruh-DeWitt detectors on the BTZ black hole Physical Review D: particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology. 86, 064031 (16 pages)
• HU, BEI-LOK, LIN, SHIH-YUIN and LOUKO, JORMA, 2012. Relativistic quantum information in detectors–field interactions Classical and Quantum Gravity. 29(22), 224005 (19 pages)
• KUNSTATTER, G., LOUKO, J. and PELTOLA, A., 2011. Quantum dynamics of the Einstein-Rosen wormhole throat Physical Review D: Particles, Fields, Gravitation & Cosmology. 83(4), 044022 (8 pages)
• KOTTANATTU, G.T. and LOUKO, J., 2011. Topological geon black holes in Einstein-Yang-Mills theory Communications in Mathematical Physics. 303(1), 127-148
• DRAGAN, A., FUENTES, I. and LOUKO, J., 2011. Quantum accelerometer: distinguishing inertial Bob from his accelerated twin Rob by a local measurement Physical Review D: Particles, Fields, Gravitation & Cosmology. 83, 085020
• LOUKO, J and MARTINEZ-PASCUAL, E, 2011. Constraint rescaling in refined algebraic quantisation: Momentum constraint Journal of Mathematical Physics. 52(12), 123504
• OMOTANI, J, SAFFIN, P M and LOUKO, J, 2011. Colliding branes and big crunches Physical Review D. 84(6), 063526
• BRUSCHI, D.E., LOUKO, J., MARTIN-MARTINEZ, E., DRAGAN, A. and FUENTES, I., 2010. Unruh effect in quantum information beyond the single-mode approximation Physical Review A: Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics. 82(4), 042332
• KUNSTATTER, G, LOUKO, J and PELTOLA, A, 2010. Polymer quantization of the Einstein-Rosen wormhole throat Physical Review D: Particles, Fields, Gravitation & Cosmology. 81(2), 024034 (10 pages)
• KUNSTATTER, G, LOUKO, J and ZIPRICK, J, 2009. Polymer quantization, singularity resolution, and the 1/r2 potential Physical Review A. 79(3), 032104
• LOUKO, J. and SATZ, A., 2008. Transition rate of the Unruh-DeWitt detector in curved spacetime Classical and Quantum Gravity. 25(5), 055012
• KAJANTIE, K., LOUKO, J. and TAHKOKALLIO, T., 2008. Isotropic AdS/CFT fireball Physical Review D: Particles, Fields, Gravitation & Cosmology. 78(12), 126011 [11 pages]
• KAJANTIE, K., LOUKO, J. and TAHKOKALLIO, T., 2008. Gravity dual of conformal matter collisions in 1 + 1 dimensions (10 pages) PHYSICAL REVIEW -SERIES D-. VOL 77(NUMB 6), 066001
• KAJANTIE, K., LOUKO, J. and TAHKOKALLIO, T., 2008. Casimir energy in the gauge/gravity description of Bjorken flow? Physical Review D: Particles, Fields, Gravitation & Cosmology. 78(12), 126012 [8 pages]
• KAJANTIE K, LOUKO J, TAHKOKALLIO T, 2007. Gravity dual of 1+1 dimensional Bjorken expansion Physical Review D: Particles, Fields, Gravitation & Cosmology. 76, 106006 (11 pages)
• HUSAIN, V, LOUKO J, WINKLER O, 2007. Quantum gravity and the Coulomb potential Physical Review D: Particles, Fields, Gravitation & Cosmology. 76, 084002 (8 pages)
• KUNSTATTER, G and LOUKO, J, 2007. Transgressing the horizons: Time operator in two-dimensional dilaton gravity. Physical Review D: Particles, Fields, Gravitation & Cosmology. 75, 024036 (13 pages)
• LOUKO, J and SATZ, A, 2007. Excited by a quantum field: Does shape matter? In: Recent Developments in Gravity, NEB XII. Vol 68, 012014 (7 pages)
• LOUKO, J. and SATZ, A., 2006. How often does the Unruh-DeWitt detector click? Regularization by a spatial profile Classical and Quantum Gravity. 23(22), 6321-6344
• KRASNOV, K. and LOUKO, J., 2006. SO~0(1,d+1) Racah coefficients: Type I representations (19 pages) Journal of Mathematical Physics. VOL 47(NUMB 3), 033513
• LOUKO, J and WISNIEWSKI, J, 2006. Higher dimensional black holes and AdS/CFT conjecture In: 10th Marcel Grossmann Meeting on General Relativity. 2358-2360
• LOUKO, J, 2006. Group averaging, positive definiteness and superselection sectors. In: 4th Meeting on Constrained Dynamics and Quantum Gravity. 142-149
• LOUKO, J., MANN, R.B. and MAROLF, D., 2005. Geons with spin and charge Classical and Quantum Gravity. VOL 22(NUMB 7), 1451-1468
• LOUKO, J. and MOLGADO, A., 2005. Superselection sectors in the Ashtekar-Horowitz-Boulware model Classical and Quantum Gravity. VOL 22(NUMB 19), 4007-4020
• LOUKO, J. and MOLGADO, A., 2005. REFINED ALGEBRAIC QUANTIZATION WITH THE TRIANGULAR SUBGROUP OF SL(2,R) International Journal of Modern Physics D. VOL 14(NUMB 7), 1131-1158
• LOUKO, J. and MOLGADO, A., 2004. Group averaging in the (p, q) oscillator representation of SL(2,R) Journal of Mathematical Physics. VOL 45(PART 5), 1919-1943
• LOUKO, J. and WISNIEWSKI, J., 2004. Einstein black holes, free scalars, and AdS/CFT correspondence (16 pages) Physical Review D: Particles, Fields, Gravitation & Cosmology. VOL 70(NUMB 8), 084024
• LOUKO, J.M. and WILTSHIRE, D.L., 2002. Brane worlds with bolts Journal of High Energy Physics. 02-2002, 007
• LOUKO, J. and MATSCHULL, H.-J., 2001. The 2 + 1 Kepler problem and its quantization Classical and Quantum Gravity. VOL 18(PART 14), 2731-2784
• LOUKO, J. and MATSCHULL, H. J., 2000. (2 + 1)-dimensional Einstein-Kepler problem in the centre-of-mass frame Classical and Quantum Gravity. VOL 17(PART 8), 1847-1873
• LOUKO, J. and ROVELLI, C., 2000. Refined algebraic quantization in the oscillator representation of SL(2, R) Journal of Mathematical Physics. VOL 41(PART 1), 132-155
• LOUKO, J.M., MAROLF, D. and ROSS, S.F., 2000. Geodesic propagators and black hole holography Physical Review D: Particles, Fields, Gravitation & Cosmology. 62(044041), 11 pages
• LOUKO, J, 2000. Single-exterior black holes In: XXXV International Winter School on Theoretical Physics. 188-202
• LOUKO, J. and MAROLF, D., 1999. Single-exterior black holes and the AdS-CFT conjecture Physical Review D. 59(6), 066002-1-066002-14
• LOUKO, J. and SCHLEICH, K., 1999. The exponential law: monopole detectors, Bogoliubov transformations, and the thermal nature of the Euclidean vacuum in RP^3 de Sitter spacetime Classical and Quantum Gravity. VOL 16(NUMBER 6), 2005-2022
• KIEFER, C. and LOUKO, J., 1999. Hamiltonian evolution and quantization for extremal black holes Annalen der Physik. 8, 67-81
• LOUKO, J. and MAROLF, D., 1998. Inextendible Schwarzschild black hole with a single exterior: How thermal is the Hawking radiation? Physical Review D: Particles, Fields, Gravitation & Cosmology. VOL 58(NUMBER 2), 024007
• PELDAN, P., LOUKO, J. and BILL, D.R., 1998. Thermodynamics of (3+1)-dimensional black holes with toroidal or higher genus horizons Physical Review D: Particles, Fields, Gravitation & Cosmology. 56, 3600-3610
• LOUKO, J., WHITING, B. F. and FRIEDMAN, J. L., 1998. Hamiltonian spacetime dynamics with a spherical null-dust shell Physical Review D: Particles, Fields, Gravitation & Cosmology. VOL 57(NUMBER 4), 2279-2298
• DAUGHTON, A., LOUKO, J. and SORKIN, R. D., 1998. Instantons and unitarity in quantum cosmology with fixed four-volume Physical Review D: Particles, Fields, Gravitation & Cosmology. VOL 58(NUMBER 8), 084008
• FRIEDMAN, J.L., LOUKO, J. and WINTERS-HILT, S.N., 1997. Reduced phase space formalism for spherically symmetric geometry with a massive dust shell Physical Review D. 56(12), 7674-7691
• LOUKO, J., SIMON, J.Z. and WINTERS-HILT, S.N., 1997. Hamiltonian thermodynamics of a Lovelock black hole Physical Review D. 55, 3525-3535
• LOUKO, J. and SORKIN, R. D., 1997. Complex actions in two-dimensional topology change Classical and Quantum Gravity. VOL 14(NUMBER 1), 179-204