I will review relativistic kinetic theory and apply it to two phenomena. The first phenomenon is accretion of matter around the Schwarzschild black hole, where we calculate its accretion rate. The second phenomenon concerns the dynamics of the kinetic gas for a thin disk in the equatorial plane of the Kerr black hole. In this

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Isospin-breaking corrections to the HVP component of the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon are needed to ensure the theoretical precision of g-2 matches its experimental precision. To this end I will describe my work calculating, on the lattice, the QED IB correction to the light connected HVP.

Strong field physics close to or above the Schwinger limit are typically studied with the vacuum as initial condition , or by considering test particle dynamics. However, with a plasma present initially, quantum relativistic mechanisms such as Schwinger pair-creation are complemented by classical plasma nonlinearities. In this work we use the Dirac-Heisenberg-Wigner formalism to study

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We address the problem of finding a product picture for QED -- i.e. a reformulation in which (formally) it has a total Hamiltonian arising as a sum of a free electromagnetic Hamiltonian, a free Dirac Hamiltonian and an interaction term, acting on a Hilbert space which is a subspace (the physical subspace) of the full

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I will review some progress on understanding quantum aspects of black hole dynamics using tools from quantum information theory and the AdS/CFT duality. For example, properties like the intimate connection between emergent spacetime locality and entanglement of CFT degrees of freedom, or the ability of black holes to scramble information efficiently, motivate an information theoretic

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