-   Jason Aaron Pollack
-   Ph.D. Candidate, Caltech Particle Theory Group
-   Walter Burke Institute for Theoretical Physics
-   California Institute of Technology
-   1200 E California Blvd
-   MC 103-33
-   Pasadena, CA 91125
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jpollack@caltech.edu
I am a Ph.D. candidate in the Caltech Particle Theory Group, in the Department of Physics. My research is conducted at the intersection between cosmology and particle physics, with a focus on early-universe cosmology and quantum gravity. My advisor is Sean Carroll. I was previously an undergraduate at Princeton University, where I did my senior thesis research with Paul Steinhardt.
Beginning in Fall 2017, I will be a postdoctoral fellow in Mark Van Raamsdonk's group at the University of British Columbia.
-   CV (4/5/2017)
Publications
- S.M. Carroll, S. Leichenauer, and J. Pollack, 2013,
"A Consistent Effective Theory of Long-Wavelength Cosmological Perturbations,"
Phys. Rev. D 90, 023518 (2014);
arXiv:1310.2920.
- K.K. Boddy, S.M. Carroll, and J. Pollack, 2014,
"De Sitter Space Without Dynamical Quantum Fluctuations," Found. Phys., 46, 702 (2016); arXiv:1405.0298.
- J. Pollack, D.N. Spergel, and P.J. Steinhardt, 2015, "Supermassive Black Holes from Ultra-Strongly Self-Interacting Dark Matter," Astrophys. J. 804, 131 (2015); arXiv:1501.00017.
- N. Bao, C. Cao, S.M. Carroll, A. Chatwin-Davies, N. Hunter-Jones, J. Pollack, and G.N. Remmen, 2015, "Consistency Conditions for an AdS/MERA Correspondence," Phys. Rev. D 91, 125036 (2015); arXiv:1504.06632.
- K.K. Boddy, S.M. Carroll, and J. Pollack, 2015,
"Why Boltzmann Brains Don't Fluctuate Into Existence From the De Sitter Vacuum," to appear in proceedings of The Philosophy of Cosmology,
K. Chamcham, ed.; arXiv:1505.02780.
- N. Bao, J. Pollack, and G.N. Remmen, 2015,
"Splitting Spacetime and Cloning Qubits: Linking No-Go Theorems across the ER=EPR Duality," Fortschr. Phys. 63, 705 (2015); arXiv:1506.08203.
- A. Bartolotta, S.M. Carroll, S. Leichenauer, and J. Pollack, 2015,
"The Bayesian Second Law of Thermodynamics," Phys. Rev. E 94, 022102 (2016); arXiv:1508.02421.
- N. Bao, J. Pollack, and G.N. Remmen, 2015,
"Wormhole and Entanglement (Non-)Detection in the ER=EPR Correspondence," JHEP, 2015, 126; arXiv:1509.05426.
- N. Bao, J. Pollack, and G.N. Remmen, 2016,
"Entanglement Conservation, ER=EPR, and a New Classical Area Theorem for Wormholes," JHEP, 2016, 48; arXiv:1604.08217.
- N. Bao, A. Bouland, A. Chatwin-Davies, J. Pollack, and H. Yuen, 2016,
"Rescuing Complementarity With Little Drama," JHEP, 2016, 26; arXiv:1607.05141.
- K.K. Boddy, S.M. Carroll, and J. Pollack, 2016, "How Decoherence Affects the Probability of Slow-Roll Eternal Inflation," Phy. Rev. D 96, 023539 (2017); arXiv:1612.04894.
Undergraduate Work