Marcelo Amaral

Dr. Marcelo Amaral

Quantum Gravity Research
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10Years (2017-Present)

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19 December 2018 in Symmetry
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Michel PlanatMichel Planat
Michel Planat
RARaymond Aschheim
Raymond Aschheim
MAMarcelo Amaral
Marcelo Amaral
KIKlee Irwin
Klee Irwin
A single qubit may be represented on the Bloch sphere or similarly on the 3-sphere S 3 . Our goal is to dress this correspondence by converting the language of universal quantum computing (UQC) to that of 3-manifolds. A magic state and the Pauli group acting on it define a model of UQC as a positive operator-valued measure (POVM) that one recognizes to be a 3-manifold M 3 . More precisely, the d-dimensional POVMs defined from subgroups of finite index of the modular group P S L ( 2 , Z ) correspond to d-fold M 3 - coverings over the trefoil knot. In this paper, we also investigate quantum information on a few ‘universal’ knots and links such as the figure-of-eight knot, the Whitehead link and Borromean rings, making use of the catalog of platonic manifolds available on the software SnapPy. Further connections between POVMs based UQC and M 3 ’s obtained from Dehn fillings are explored.

21 August 2017 in Classical and Quantum Gravity
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MAMarcelo Amaral
Marcelo Amaral
RARaymond Aschheim
Raymond Aschheim
LBLaurenţiu Bubuianu
Laurenţiu Bubuianu
KIKlee Irwin
Klee Irwin
SVSergiu Vacaru
Sergiu Vacaru
DWDaniel Woolridge
Daniel Woolridge
The goal of this work is to elaborate on new geometric methods of constructing exact and parametric quasiperiodic solutions for anamorphic cosmology models in modified gravity theories, MGTs, and general relativity, GR. There exist previously studied generic off-diagonal and diagonalizable cosmological metrics encoding gravitational and matter fields with quasicrystal like structures, QC, and holonomy corrections from loop quantum gravity, LQG. We apply the anholonomic frame deformation method, AFDM, in order to decouple the (modified) gravitational and matter field equations in general form. This allows us to find integral varieties of cosmological solutions determined by generating functions, effective sources, integration functions and constants. The coefficients of metrics and connections for such cosmological configurations depend, in general, on all spacetime coordinates and can be chosen to generate observable (quasi)-periodic/aperiodic/fractal/stochastic/(super) cluster/filament/polymer like (continuous, stochastic, fractal and/or discrete structures) in MGTs and/or GR. In this work, we study new classes of solutions for anamorphic cosmology with LQG holonomy corrections. Such solutions are characterized by nonlinear symmetries of generating functions for generic off-diagonal cosmological metrics and generalized connections, with possible nonholonomic constraints to Levi–Civita configurations and diagonalizable metrics depending only on a time like coordinate. We argue that anamorphic quasiperiodic cosmological models integrate the concept of quantum discrete spacetime, with certain gravitational QC-like vacuum and nonvacuum structures. And, that of a contracting universe that homogenizes, isotropizes and flattens without introducing initial conditions or multiverse problems.

21 February 2020 in Entropy
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KIKlee Irwin
Klee Irwin
MAMarcelo Amaral
Marcelo Amaral
DCDavid Chester
David Chester
We modify the simulation hypothesis to a self-simulation hypothesis, where the physical universe, as a strange loop, is a mental self-simulation that might exist as one of a broad class of possible code theoretic quantum gravity models of reality obeying the principle of efficient language axiom. This leads to ontological interpretations about quantum mechanics. We also discuss some implications of the self-simulation hypothesis such as an informational arrow of time.

2 December 2020 in Symmetry
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Michel PlanatMichel Planat
Michel Planat
RARaymond Aschheim
Raymond Aschheim
MAMarcelo Amaral
Marcelo Amaral
FFFang Fang
Fang Fang
KIKlee Irwin
Klee Irwin
We find that the degeneracies and many peculiarities of the DNA genetic code may be described thanks to two closely related (fivefold symmetric) finite groups. The first group has signature G=Z5⋊H where H=Z2.S4≅2O is isomorphic to the binary octahedral group 2O and S4 is the symmetric group on four letters/bases. The second group has signature G=Z5⋊GL(2,3) and points out a threefold symmetry of base pairings. For those groups, the representations for the 22 conjugacy classes of G are in one-to-one correspondence with the multiplets encoding the proteinogenic amino acids. Additionally, most of the 22 characters of G attached to those representations are informationally complete. The biological meaning of these coincidences is discussed.

1 January 2018 in Annals of Physics
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Marcelo Amaral
MBMartin Bojowald
Martin Bojowald

11 June 2020 in Symmetry
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Michel PlanatMichel Planat
Michel Planat
RARaymond Aschheim
Raymond Aschheim
MAMarcelo Amaral
Marcelo Amaral
KIKlee Irwin
Klee Irwin
A popular account of the mixing patterns for the three generations of quarks and leptons is through the characters κ of a finite group G. Here, we introduce a d-dimensional Hilbert space with d = c c ( G ) , the number of conjugacy classes of G. Groups under consideration should follow two rules, (a) the character table contains both two- and three-dimensional representations with at least one of them faithful and (b) there are minimal informationally complete measurements under the action of a d-dimensional Pauli group over the characters of these representations. Groups with small d that satisfy these rules coincide in a large part with viable ones derived so far for reproducing simultaneously the CKM (quark) and PNMS (lepton) mixing matrices.