The effective field theorist's approach to gravitational dynamics

RA Porto - Physics Reports, 2016 - Elsevier
We review the effective field theory (EFT) approach to gravitational dynamics. We focus on
extended objects in long-wavelength backgrounds and gravitational wave emission from …

Numerical solution of gravitational dynamics in asymptotically anti-de Sitter spacetimes

PM Chesler, LG Yaffe - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2014 - Springer
A bstract A variety of gravitational dynamics problems in asymptotically anti-de Sitter (AdS)
spacetime are amenable to efficient numerical solution using a common approach involving …

GRChombo: numerical relativity with adaptive mesh refinement

K Clough, P Figueras, H Finkel… - … and Quantum Gravity, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
In this work, we introduce ${\mathtt {GRChombo}}: $ a new numerical relativity code which
incorporates full adaptive mesh refinement (AMR) using block structured Berger–Rigoutsos …

The tune of love and the nature(ness) of spacetime

RA Porto - Fortschritte der Physik, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
The black hole information paradox is among the most outstanding puzzles in physics. I
argue here there is yet another black hole quandary which, in light of the recent direct …

Black hole bombs and explosions: from astrophysics to particle physics

V Cardoso - General Relativity and Gravitation, 2013 - Springer
Black holes are the elementary particles of gravity, the final state of sufficiently massive stars
and of energetic collisions. With a 40-year long history, black hole physics is a fully …

Rapid growth of superradiant instabilities for charged black holes in a cavity

JC Degollado, CAR Herdeiro, HF Rúnarsson - Physical Review D—Particles …, 2013 - APS
Scalar fields confined either by a mass term or by a mirrorlike boundary condition have
unstable modes in the background of a Kerr black hole. Assuming a time dependence as ei …

Time evolution of superradiant instabilities for charged black holes in a cavity

JC Degollado, CAR Herdeiro - Physical Review D, 2014 - APS
Frequency domain studies have recently demonstrated that charged scalar fields exhibit fast
growing superradiant instabilities when interacting with charged black holes in a cavity …

Holographic turbulence

A Adams, PM Chesler, H Liu - Physical review letters, 2014 - APS
We construct turbulent black holes in asymptotically AdS 4 spacetime by numerically solving
Einstein's equations. Using the AdS/CFT correspondence we find that both the dual …

Quantum quenches of holographic plasmas

A Buchel, L Lehner, RC Myers… - Journal of High Energy …, 2013 - Springer
A bstract We employ holographic techniques to study quantum quenches at finite
temperature, where the quenches involve varying the coupling of the boundary theory to a …

Testing gravity with extreme-mass-ratio inspirals

A Cárdenas-Avendaño, CF Sopuerta - Recent Progress on Gravity Tests …, 2024 - Springer
Extreme-mass-ratio inspirals consist of binary systems of compact objects, with orders of
magnitude differences in their masses, in the regime where the dynamics are driven by …