Hikaru Toya

Hikaru Toya
Department of Physics, Graduate School of Science

I belong to the department of physics in the graduate school of science and specialize in the particle physics theory. In particular, I am interested in gravity and black holes, and study them. My final goal is to quantize gravity perfectly.

In the universe, four interactions exist: weak interaction, strong interaction, electromagnetism, and gravity. Three interactions of them have been quantized, and they are described by the Standard Model. However only gravity haven’t been quantized, and so we can’t understand the birth of the universe and black holes completely, though they are important physical phenomena. Inversely we should construct the quantum theory of gravity by analyzing them. I especially focus on black holes, and I prepare to find quantum effect of gravity appeared in gravitational waves come from black holes. In addition, I’d like to apply the finding from my study to the superstring theory, the quantum computer and so on.

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