Professor Timothy Hollowood

Professor

Physics

Telephone: (01792) 513194

Email: t.hollowood@swansea.ac.uk

Room: Office - 519

Fifth Floor

Vivian Building

Singleton Campus

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Hollowood, T. 2018 Unravelling cosmological perturbations Physics Letters B 785 254 261
https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa43856 doi: 10.1016/j.physletb.2018.08.073
Hollowood, T., Thompson, D. 2018 Quantum anisotropic sigma and lambda models as spin chains Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical 51 40 405401
https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa43539 doi: 10.1088/1751-8121/aadc6d
Hollowood, T. 2017 Decoherence, discord, and the quantum master equation for cosmological perturbations Physical Review D 95 10
https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa33006 doi: 10.1103/PhysRevD.95.103521
Hollowood, T. 2017 Quantum inverse scattering and the lambda deformed principal chiral model Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical 50 30 305401
https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa34060 doi: 10.1088/1751-8121/aa7958
Hollowood, T. 2017 Giant magnons of string theory in the lambda background Journal of High Energy Physics 2017 7
https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa34061 doi: 10.1007/JHEP07(2017)098

PH-302 Quantum Mechanics II

Students will deepen their study of Quantum Mechanics by learning the general formalism. Students will be challenged by the strange and puzzling aspects of the theory. Students will learn various approximation techniques for solving complicated systems.
PH-321 General Relativity

The objective of this module is to educate students in the General Theory of Relativity in a way that introduces just enough of the mathematical tools required, namely pseudo Riemannian geometry, so that many applications of the theory can be considered. Students will learn about curved geometries mainly through simple examples and by taking the point of view of a freely falling observer. Applications will include: a discussion of the classic test of general relativity involving planetary motion and bending of light; the strange geometry of black-holes, wormholes and warp drive space-times. Finally students will learn how general relativity determines the dynamics of the whole universe.