Highlights (April 2020 - March 2021)


Editor's Suggestions, etc.

  1. Editor's Suggestions in Physical Review D:
    I. Akal, Y. Kusuki, T. Takayanagi and Z. Wei, "Codimension-two holography for wedges",
    Phys. Rev. D 102, no.12, 126007 (2020).
  2. An invited review:
    Masaki Shigemori, "Superstrata",
    Gen. Relativ. Gravit. 52, 51 (2020).
  3. An invited review:
    Kotaro Tamaoka and Koji Umemoto, "Quantum Information Measures for Mixed States and Holographic Principle",
    Butsuri, 2020 Volume 75 Issue 6 Pages 335-339.
  4. Article with press release:
    Takahiro Nishimichi, Guido D’Amico, Mikhail M. Ivanov, Leonardo Senatore, Marko Simonović, Masahiro Takada, Matias Zaldarriaga, and Pierre Zhang, "Blinded challenge for precision cosmology with large-scale structure: Results from effective field theory for the redshift-space galaxy power spectrum",
    Physical Review D 102, 123541 (2020).
  5. Article with press release:
    Kohji Yoshikawa, Satoshi Tanaka, Naoki Yoshida, and Shun Saito, "Cosmological Vlasov–Poisson Simulations of Structure Formation with Relic Neutrinos: Nonlinear Clustering and the Neutrino Mass",
    Astrophysical Journal 904 2 (2020).

Books

  1. Yasuaki Hikida, "共形場理論入門　基礎からホログラフィへの道",
    Kodansha Ltd. (2020).
  2. Tadashi Takayanagi, "量子エンタングルメントから創発する宇宙",
    Kyoritsu Shuppan Co., Ltd. (2020).

Invited Talks (International)

  1. T. Takayanagi, "Page Curve from Holographic Moving Mirror",
    HoloTube webinar The Applied Holography Webinars Network, Feb.16, 2021.
  2. T. Takayanagi, "Quantum Entanglement and Holography",
    The 15th Kavli Asian Winter School on Strings, Particles and Cosmology, Beijing, China, January 23-24, 2021.
  3. T. Takayanagi, "Path-integral Optimization and AdS/CFT",
    TENSOR NETWORKS: FROM SIMULATIONS TO HOLOGRAPHY III 　(Online) , Perimeter, Canada, November 20, 2020.
  4. T. Takayanagi, "Recent Progresses of AdS/BCFT",
    invited talk at "Quantum Aspects of Space-Time and Matter", MPI (AEI), Potsdam, Germany, November 16, 2020.
  5. T. Takayanagi, "AdS/BCFT, Entanglement Wedges and Wedge Holography",
    invited talk at "Conference on The Dual Mysteries of Gauge Theories and Gravity", IIT Madras, Chennai, India, October 23, 2020.
  6. T. Takayanagi, "Emergence of Universe from Quantum Entanglement",
    invited colloquium at IIT Gandhinagar, India, June 9, 2020.
  7. T. Takayanagi, "Holographic Pseudo Entropy and Complexity",
    invited talk at "Complexity from Quantum Information to Black Holes", Lorentz Center, Netherlands, June 2-5, 2020.
  8. T. Takayanagi, "Holographic Pseudo Entropy",
    invited talk at "Frontiers of holographic duality", Steklov Mathematical Institute, Moscow, Russia, Apr 27-May 8, 2020.
  9. Hiroshi Kunitomo, "Tree-level S-matrix of superstring field theory",
    Invited talk at "Workshop on Fundamental Aspects of String Theory", Sao Paulo, Brazil, June 1-12, 2020.
  10. Yasuaki Hikida, "Higher rank FZZ-dualities",
    invited online seminar at Kavli Institute for Theoretical Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, China, December 3, 2020.
  11. Shuichi Yokoyama, "Hole or Matter?",
    invited talk at "INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON HOLOGRAPHY, STRING THEORY AND DISCRETE APPROACHES", Hanoi, Vietnam, August 7, 2020.
  12. Yuya Kusuki, "Codimension two holography",
    invited talk at "String theory, gravity and cosmology" in Sungkyunkwan University, Korea, November 2020.
  13. Shinji Hirano, "Random Geometry Approach to TTbar Deformation",
    invited talk at "TTbar Deformation and Integrability", APCTP, Pohang, Korea, November 8-14, 2020.
  14. Shigeki Sugimoto, "Stringy Excited Baryons in Holographic QCD",
    invited talk at Simons Center Seminar Series "Applications of gauge topology, holography and string models to QCD", Simons Center, USA, August 6, 2020.
  15. Tomonori Ugajin, "Entanglement between two disjoint universes",
    invited semianr at CERN, Swiss/France, September 6, 2020.
  16. Tomonori Ugajin, "Entanglement between two disjoint universes",
    invited seminar at Jinlin university, China, December 11, 2020.
  17. Zixia Wei, "Entanglement in moving mirror and Page Curve",
    invited seminar at School of Physics and Astronomy, Sun Yat-Sen University, China, December, 2020.
  18. Zixia Wei, "Post-Selection, Entanglement and Holography",
    invited seminar at High Energy Physics Group Seminar, Tianjin University, China, June, 2020.
  19. Zixia Wei, "Holographic Pseudo Entropy",
    invited seminar at Theoretical Physics Group Seminar, Jilin University, China, June, 2020.
  20. Masaki Shigemori, "Beyond superstrata",
    invited talk at "Black-hole microstructure", CEA Saclay, France, October 12, 2020.
  21. Masazumi Honda, "Possible applications of quantum computation to High Energy Physics",
    invited talk at "Online 2020 NTU-Kyoto high energy physics workshop" co-hosted by National Taiwan University and Kyoto University, Taiwan/Japan, December 2, 2020.
  22. Masazumi Honda, "Introduction to Quantum Computation for Particle Physicists",
    invited talk at APCTP workshop "Quantum Matter and Quantum Information with Holography", August 23rd and 30th, 2020.
  23. Kunihito Ioka,
    SOC of AAPPS-DACG Workshop on Astrophysics, Cosmology and Gravitation Online with the Headquarters at APCTP, 11/9-13, 2020.
  24. Kunihito Ioka,
    Invited talk "Fast Radio Bursts: A Mystery Being Solved?" at Hirosaki University (online), 8/5, 2020.
  25. Kenta Kiuchi,
    “Theoretical modeling of binary neutron star mergers: Recent progress and future prospect”, Invited colloquium speaker, GRAPPA, Amsterdam,Netherland, Nov. 9, 2020.
  26. Shinji Mukohyama, "Minimalism in modified gravity",
    invited talk at "Gravitational waves: a new messenger to explore the universe", invited talk a IHP, Paris, France, March 31, 2021.
  27. Shinji Mukohyama, "Minimalism in modified gravity",
    invited talk at "International webinar on Recent Developments in Cosmology and Modified Gravity", India, March 10, 2021.
  28. Shinji Mukohyama, "Gravitational Theories",
    invited lectures at "Gravitational waves: a new messenger to explore the universe", IHP, Paris, France, March 2 and 3, 2021.
  29. Shinji Mukohyama, "Minimalism in modified gravity",
    invited talk at "Cosmology 2021: the Rise of Field Theory", Cambridge, UK, January 4, 2021.
  30. Shinji Mukohyama, "Minimalism in modified gravity",
    invited talk at "7th Korea-Japan Workshop on Dark Energy", November 23, 2020.
  31. Shinji Mukohyama, "A consistent theory of D\to 4 Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet gravity",
    invited talk at "Spring workshop on gravity and cosmology", Krakow, Poland, May 26, 2020.
  32. Takahiro Tanaka, "Searching for ultra-light particles via gravitational waves",
    Korea-Japan session at the KPS meeting・online・2020/12/7-10.
  33. Masroor C. Pookkillath, "Minimally Modified Gravity fitting Planck data better than ΛCDM",
    The Fourth Zeldovich virtual meeting (September 7 11, 2020).
  34. Misao Sasaki, "Primordial Black Holes and Gravitational Waves",
    ICTS workshop on "Less Travelled Path for Dark Matter", October, online.
  35. Misao Sasaki, "Primordial Black Holes and Gravitational Waves",
    Gordon Godfey workshop on astroparticle physics, December, online.
  36. Misao Sasaki, "Primordial Black Holes and Gravitational Waves",
    7th Korea-Japan Workshop on Dark Energy, December, online.
  37. Misao Sasaki, "Primordial Black Holes and Cosmological Gravitational Waves",
    IHP program "Gravitational Waves: a new messenger to explore the universe", March, online.
  38. A. De Felice, "Weakening gravity for dark matter in a type-II minimally modified gravity",
    Invited talk (on zoom), Bremen, Germany, January/2021.
  39. A. De Felice, "Weakening gravity for dark matter in a type-II minimally modified gravity",
    Invited talk (on zoom), Daejeon, South Korea, December/2020.
  40. A. De Felice, "Weakening gravity for dark matter in a type-II minimally modified gravity",
    Invited talk (on zoom), Heidelberg, Germany, November/2020.
  41. Takahiro Nishimichi, invited talk, "Emulator for redshift-space clustering",
    DIPC journal club (online), 25th May 2020.

Invited Talks (in Japan)

  1. T. Takayanagi, "Recent Progresses in Path-integral Optimization",
    invited talk at "10th International Conference on Exact Renormalization Group 2020", YITP, Kyoto, Japan, November 2-6, 2020.
  2. Masaki Shigemori, "What microstate geometries tell us",
    invited talk at KEK Theory workshop 2020, KEK, Tsukuba, Japan, December 18, 2020 (online via Zoom).
  3. Zixia Wei, "Fun with boundaries: from AdS/BCFT to wedge holography",
    invited seminar at Particle Physics Group, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan, January 2021.
  4. Zixia Wei, "Holography in a Wedge: from Codimension two Holography to Spacelike Boundaries",
    invited seminar at Tagen Seminar, Graduate School of Mathematics, Nagoya University, December 2020.
  5. Tomonori Ugajin, "Entanglement between two disjoint universes",
    invited seminar at Nagoya University, Japan, June 1st, 2020.
  6. Tomonori Ugajin, "Entanglement between two disjoint universes",
    invited seminar at KEK, Japan, June 19, 2020.
  7. Tomonori Ugajin, "Entanglement between two disjoint universes",
    invited seminar at Univ. of Tokyo (Komaba), Japan, September 30, 2020.
  8. Tomonori Ugajin, "Entanglement between two disjoint universes",
    invited seminar at Univ. of Tokyo (Hongo), Japan, October 26, 2020.
  9. Tomonori Ugajin, "Entanglement between two disjoint universes",
    invited seminar at Shinshu Univ., Japan, November 4, 2020.
  10. Tomonori Ugajin, "Entanglement between two disjoint universes",
    invited seminar at Tohoku Univ., Japan, November 12, 2020.
  11. Tomonori Ugajin, "Entanglement between two disjoint universes",
    invited seminar at Kobe Univ., Japan, November 30, 2020.
  12. Tomonori Ugajin, "Entanglement between two disjoint universes",
    invited seminar at Osaka Univ., Japan, December 8, 2020.
  13. Tomonori Ugajin, "Entanglement between two disjoint universes",
    invited talk at CGP internal workshop, YITP, Kyoto, Japan, December 15, 2020.
  14. Tomonori Ugajin, "Entanglement between two disjoint universes",
    invited talk at KEK Theory Workshop 2020, KEK, Japan, December 18, 2020.
  15. Tomonori Ugajin, "Entanglement between two disjoint universes",
    invited talk at "Recent developments in theoretical physics based on quantum information theory", YITP, Kyoto, Japan, March 1, 2021.
  16. Tomonori Ugajin, "Entanglement between two disjoint universes",
    invited talk at "String and Fields 2020", YITP, Kyoto, Japan, Novermber 19,2020.
  17. Naotaka Kubo, "Fermi gas approach to general rank theories and quantum curves",
    invited semianr at Rikkyo University, December 2020.
  18. Naotaka Kubo, "Non-perturbative tests of duality cascades in three-dimensional supersymmetric gauge theories",
    invited seminar at iTHEMS Math-Phys joint seminar, iTHEMS, RIKEN, Japan, December 2020.
  19. Yuya Kusuki, "Page curve in moving mirror setup",
    invited talk at "Recent developments in theoretical physics based on quantum information theory", YITP, Kyoto, Japan, March 2021.
  20. Sinya Aoki, "Conserved charges on curved spacetime with symmetry",
    invited talk at CGP internal workshop, YITP, Kyoto, Japan, December 15-16, 2020.
  21. T. Kugo, "Existence Theorem of Photon and Graviton",
    invited seminar at the 6th Core-U seminar, Hiroshima University, Japan, February 24, 2021.
  22. Hidehiko Shimada, "Bose-Einstein Condensation and large-N colour confinement",
    invited seminar at KEK, Japan, July 2, 2020.
  23. Hidehiko Shimada, "Bose-Einstein Condensation and large-N colour confinement",
    invited seminar at Nagoya University, Japan, May 11, 2020.
  24. Masazumi Honda, "Introduction to Quantum Computation for Particle Physicists",
    invited lecture at Keio University, Japan, May 26-27, 2020.
  25. Masazumi Honda, "Resummation of Perturbative Series & Resurgence in Quantum Field Theory",
    invited lecture at KEK-PH lecture series, KEK, Japan, July 8th and 15th, 2020.
  26. Masazumi Honda, "Recent progress on five dimensional quantum field theory",
    invited talk at the joint workshop between Tokyo Institute of Technology and Ibaraki University, November 7th and 8th, 2020.
  27. Masazumi Honda, "Introduction to Quantum Computation for Particle Physicists",
    invited talk at Ouuestsu Particle Theory Workshop (奥羽越素粒子論研究会), Japan, December 13-14, 2020.
  28. Masazumi Honda, "Black hole microstate counting and Picard-Lefschetz theory",
    invited talk at "Potential Toolkit to Attack Nonperturbative Aspects of QFT - Resurgence and related topics -", YITP, Japan, September 25, 2020.
  29. Masazumi Honda, "Digital Quantum Simulation of the Schwinger Model with Topological Term via Adiabatic State Preparation",
    invited talk at "Quantum computing for quantum field theories", YITP, Japan, January 5, 2020.
  30. Masazumi Honda, "Possible applications of quantum computation to High Energy Physics",
    invited talk at "Recent progress in theoretical physics based on quantum information theory", YITP, Japan, March 4, 2020.
  31. Masazumi Honda, "Quantum phase transition and Resurgence: Lessons from 3d N=4 SQED",
    invited talk at "Randomness, Integrability and Representation Theory in Quantum Field Theory", Osaka City University, Japan, March 23, 2020.
  32. Kotaro Tamaoka, "Pseudo Entropy in Quantum Many-Body Systems and Holography",
    invited talk at "Recent progress in theoretical physics based on quantum information theory", YITP, Kyoto, Japan, March 1-5, 2021.
  33. 玉岡 幸太郎, "混合状態の量子もつれを測る新たな量子情報量の導入”,
    日本物理学会 若手奨励賞受賞記念講演 第75回日本物理学会秋季大会, オンライン, 2020年9月14日.
  34. 森前智行, "量子計算と暗号の進展",
    電子情報通信学会2021年総合大会、招待講演 2021年3月.
  35. 森前智行, "量子計算の基礎",
    電子情報通信学会、情報理論研究会、招待講演、2020年7月.
  36. T. Morimae,
    KEK workshop on femtotechnologies by quantum computers 2020, KEK, Japan, March 2021.
  37. Koutarou Kyutoku,
    A talk for Young Scientist Award at JPS 20201 Annual (76th) Meeting.
  38. Atsushi Taruya, Nishinomiya-Yukawa science seminar, 12th Dec. 2020.
  39. Masato Nozawa, "Static black holes: uniqueness and beyond"
    (invited talk), The 4th workshop on Mathematics and Physics in General Relativity, Osaka City University (online), March, 2021.
  40. Takahiro Nishimichi, "Emulators for cosmology",
    Testing Gravity THxOBS Japan kickoff meeting (online), 28th Aug, 2020.

Others

  1. Nathalie Deruelle,
    Selection as outstanding referee 2020, American Physical Society.
  2. Masato Nozawa,
    Selection as outstanding referee 2020, American Physical Society.
  3. Masaya Amo, Aiko Takafuji, and Naho Fujita,
    The astronomical herald, 113 (8) 488 (2020).