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Theoretical physicists working at a blackboard collaboration pod in the Beecroft building.
Credit: Jack Hobhouse

Christopher Butcher

Graduate Student

Research theme

  • Fundamental particles and interactions
  • Fields, strings, and quantum dynamics

Sub department

  • Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics

Research groups

  • Particle theory
christopher.butcher@physics.ox.ac.uk
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I am a first-year DPhil student supervised by Prof. John Wheater. My research focuses on matrix quantum mechanics and its role in quantum gravity. In particular, I study the BFSS model, which is conjectured to provide a non-perturbative definition of M-theory. Recent progress in defining and computing entanglement entropy in gauge and matrix theories has created new opportunities to probe the emergence of spacetime geometry. I am exploring how these developments can be applied within the BFSS framework. Before starting my DPhil, I completed my undergraduate degree at the University of York and my master鈥檚 at the University of Cambridge.

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