The strong cosmic censorship conjecture states that it is impossible to travel into spacetime regions where determinism breaks down, such as the innermost region of a charged or rotating black hole.
In this talk I present results on the influence of quantum effects on the strong cosmic censorship conjecture in charged black hole spacetimes. In addition, I discuss the (dis-)charge of charged...
In analogy to the ground state of the quantum harmonic oscillator, the quantum ground state of light contains non-zero energy, the vacuum energy. On average, the ground state photon number is zero, but the existence of fluctuations in the electromagnetic field can be interpreted as the creation and destruction of virtual photons. Mathematically, the average field expectation value of the...
Quantum computing is among the most promising new research areas of modern physics. At its heart, it leverages non-classical effects in certain quantum systems to dramatically speed up computations and information processing. Addressing the need for highly stable quantum systems, a particularly promising paradigm for the design of quantum computers is holonomic quantum computing [1], i.e. the...
Industrial production processes feature a range of fluid- or particle-based flows, converting primary or secondary raw materials and resources into highly refined products. Observations of flow details and measurements of flow patterns are particularly difficult in some industrial settings, where extreme process conditions like high temperatures and pressures, dust and chemical reactions...
In transition metal-oxygen species, the way the oxygen atoms are bonded to the metal center is found to play a significant role in their reactivity, in view of different types of oxygen ligands and unusual oxidation states.$^{[1,2]}$ In particular, finding of compounds that present transition metals with unusual oxidation states or reactive oxygen species (superoxido, peroxido and oxygen...
Photosystem II, with its active center a CaMn$_4$O$_5$ cluster (OEC), is essential for photosynthesis and therefore O$_2$ production in nature [1]. The understanding of the electronic structure and properties of this complex plays an important role in designing artificial water-oxidizing complexes. During oxygen formation the OEC undergoes five distinct states called S$_0$-S$_4$ forming the...
