Åsmund Folkestad

Theoretical physicist, afolkest@ucdavis.edu

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QMAP, UC Davis

California, USA

I’m currently a postdoctoral scholar at QMAP, UC Davis. I have a PhD in theoretical physics from MIT. My research is on classical and quantum gravity, leveraging connections to quantum information theory through the holographic prinicple and AdS/CFT.

selected publications

  1. Subregion independence in gravity
    Åsmund Folkestad
    JHEP, 2024
    DOI
  2. Penrose Inequality as a Constraint on the Low Energy Limit of Quantum Gravity
    Åsmund Folkestad
    Phys. Rev. Lett., 2023
    DOI