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Ahmed Barbar
PhD Candidate
Contact Information
a.barbar@uky.edu
CP 256A
Research Interests
high energy physics
Holography (AdS/CFT)
Quantum Information Science
Affiliations
Physics & Astronomy
Selected Publications
Selected Publications:
Barbar, A., 2025. Automorphism-weighted ensembles from TQFT gravity. arXiv preprint
arXiv:2511.04311 [hep-th]
.
Barbar, A., Dymarsky, A. and Shapere, A., 2025. Holographic description of 4d Maxwell theories and their code-based ensembles. arXiv preprint
arXiv:2510.03392 [hep-th]
.
Barbar, A., Dymarsky, A. and Shapere, A.D., 2025. Global symmetries, code ensembles, and sums over geometries.
Physical Review Letters
,
134
(15), p.151603.
Barbar, A.H., Awad, A.M. and AlFiky, M.T., 2020. Viability of bouncing cosmology in energy-momentum-squared gravity.
Physical Review D
,
101
(4), p.044058.