Sebastian Murk

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Office: Lab 4, E25f

Email: sebastian.murk[at]oist.jp

Education

PhD Theoretical Physics (2022)
Sydney Quantum Academy
Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia*

MSc Physics (2017)
Lunds Universitet, Sweden
Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany*

BSc Physics (2016)
University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany*

*Degree awarding institution

Research interests

Quantum aspects of black holes, semiclassical gravity, modified gravity, mathematical relativity, numerical relativity, quantum gravity, quantum information theory, quantum foundations

List of publications

arXiv / inspire HEP / Google Scholar / ORCID iD / ResearchGate

Selected publications

Reviews

RB Mann, S Murk, DR Terno
Black holes and their horizons in semiclassical and modified theories of gravity 
Int. J. Mod. Phys. D 31, 2230015 (2022) [arXiv:2112.06515]

Articles

A Hahn, S Murk, S Singh, GK Brennen
Categorical quantum volume operator 
Phys. Rev. D 110, 086013 (2024) [arXiv:2406.02111]

S Murk, I Soranidis
Light rings and causality for nonsingular ultracompact objects sourced by nonlinear electrodynamics 
Phys. Rev. D 110, 044064 (2024) [arXiv:2406.07957]
[Code: https://github.com/s-murk/2406.07957]

M Hotta, S Murk
Probability vector representation of the Schrödinger equation and Leggett-Garg-type experiments
Phys. Rev. A 109, 062224 (2024) [arXiv:2312.16281
[Code: https://github.com/s-murk/2312.16281; Also featured as Staff Pick in the Wolfram Community: community.wolfram.com/groups/-/m/t/3104397]

S Murk, I Soranidis 
Kinematic and energy properties of dynamical regular black holes 
Phys. Rev. D 108, 124007 (2023) [arXiv:2309.06002]

S Murk, I Soranidis
Regular black holes and the first law of black hole mechanics
Phys. Rev. D 108, 044002 (2023) [arXiv:2304.05421]

S Murk
Nomen non est omen: Why it is too soon to identify ultra-compact objects as black holes 
Int. J. Mod. Phys. D 32, 2342012 (2023) [arXiv:2210.03750]

S Murk
Physical black holes in fourth-order gravity
Phys. Rev. D 105, 044051 (2022) [arXiv:2110.14973
[Code: github.com/s-murk/2110.14973]

Preprints

S Murk, DR Terno, R Vadapalli
Gravity-induced birefringence in spherically symmetric spacetimes [arXiv:2408.02729] [Code: github.com/s-murk/2408.02729]

Awards & Scholarships

Australian Institute of Physics Bragg Gold Medal for Excellence in Physics - New South Wales State Branch Nominee (2023)
Australian Institute of Physics Postgraduate Excellence in Physics Award (2020)
Future STEM Leaders Transformation Award (2018)

Sydney Quantum Academy Scholarship (2020-2022)
International Macquarie University Research Excellence Scholarship (2018-2022)
European Union Erasmus+ Scholarship (2016-2017)