Central European Institute for Cosmology and Fundamental Physics
 

Alexander Vikman

PhD: Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich, 2007
   
2016 Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kyoto University
Visiting Fellow
2015-  Institute of Physics, Czech Academy of Sciences,
Senior Researcher 
2014-15 ASC, Ludwig Maximilian University Munich,
Senior Research Assistant
2012-13 Stanford University, Long-term Visitor
2010-13 Theory Group, CERN, Geneva; Fellow
2007-10  CCPP, New York University; James Arthur Fellow
   
Email: ivxzna@smh.pm
Phone: +420 26605 2175
Address:   Office 232
Na Slovance 1999/2
182 21 Praha 8, Czech Republic

I have been working on inflation, early universe cosmology, dark energy, dark matter and different classical and quantum aspects of non-canonical field theories. Currently I am interested in the following questions: What was the origin of the expansion in the universe: a quantum gravity or strongly coupled regime, a bounce or something else? Are there alternatives to inflation? What is the microscopic origin of Black Hole thermodynamics? What is inside a black hole? What are possible UV-completions for a QFT? What is Dark Energy and what is the structure of quantum vacuum in the presence of gravity? I hope I will see answers to some of these questions in the near future. I will be very happy, if some of these deep issues are clarified in my research.

Selected Publications

  • E. Babichev, V. Mukhanov and A. Vikman, k-Essence, superluminal propagation, causality and emergent geometry
    JHEP (2008) [arXiv:0708.0561 [hep-th]]
  • A. Vikman, Can dark energy evolve to the phantom?,
    Phys. Rev. D (2005) [astro-ph/0407107]

For a complete list of publications see INSPIRE-HEP.