Peter Taylor
MR
Dr. Peter Taylor is an Assistant Professor at the Centre for Astrophysics and Relativity (CfAR) in the School of Mathematical Sciences. He graduated with a degree in Mathematical Sciences from UCD in 2006, winning scholarships to Cambridge University to pursue a masters in Theoretical Physics (Part III of the Tripos). Having obtained a Distinction in Part III, he returned to UCD on an Irish Research Scholarship, completing his PhD in 2011 under the supervision of Prof. Adrian Ottewill. From 2011-2014, he held an assistant professorship at the School of Mathematics, Trinity College Dublin. He then moved to upstate New York where he was a Marie Curie research fellow at Cornell University. In 2016, he returned to Dublin, taking up his current position at DCU where he continues to teach mathematics and research in the area of black hole physics.
Peer Reviewed Journal
| Year | Publication | |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | (2025) 'Mode-sum prescription for renormalized expectation values for a charged quantum scalar field on a charged black hole'. PHYSICAL REVIEW D, . https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.111.045010 | |
| 2025 | (2025) 'Renormalized stress-energy tensor for scalar fields in the Boulware state with applications to extremal black holes'. PHYSICAL REVIEW D, . https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.111.085009 | |
| 2024 | (2024) 'Unruh-DeWitt Particle Detectors in Bouncing Cosmologies'. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, . [DOI] | |
| 2023 | (2023) 'Renormalized stress-energy tensor for scalar fields in Hartle-Hawking, Boulware, and Unruh states in the Reissner-Nordström spacetime'. PHYSICAL REVIEW D, . https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.108.125004 | |
| 2022 | Taylor, Peter; Breen, Cormac; Ottewill, Adrian (2022) 'Mode-sum prescription for the renormalized stress energy tensor on black hole spacetimes'. PHYSICAL REVIEW D, 106 (6). [DOI] | |
| 2022 | Conroy, A.; Taylor, P. (2022) 'Response of an Unruh-DeWitt detector near an extremal black hole'. PHYSICAL REVIEW D, 105 . [Link] [DOI] | |
| 2021 | Morley, Thomas; Winstanley, Elizabeth; Taylor, Peter (2021) 'Vacuum polarization on topological black holes with Robin boundary conditions'. PHYSICAL REVIEW D, 103 (4). [DOI] | |
| 2021 | Peter Taylor; Cormac Breen (2021) 'Semiclassical backreaction on asymptotically anti–de Sitter black holes'. PHYSICAL REVIEW D, 103 . https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.103.025006 | |
| 2020 | Peter Taylor (2020) 'Quantum field theory on global anti-de Sitter space-time with Robin boundary conditions'. Classical and Quantum Gravity, 38 . https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6382/aba58a | |
| 2020 | Taylor, Peter (2020) 'Regular quantum states on the Cauchy horizon of a charged black hole'. Classical and Quantum Gravity, 37 (4). [DOI] | |
| 2018 | Cormac Breen and Peter Taylor (2018) 'Vacuum polarization for varying quantum scalar field parameters in Schwarzschild–anti–de Sitter spacetime'. PHYSICAL REVIEW D, 98 . [Link] https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.98.105006 | |
| 2018 | Morley, T.; Taylor, P.; Winstanley, E. (2018) 'Vacuum polarization on topological black holes'. Classical and Quantum Gravity, 35 . [Link] [DOI] | |
| 2018 | Harte, A.I.; Taylor, P.; Flanagan, É. (2018) 'Foundations of the self-force problem in arbitrary dimensions'. PHYSICAL REVIEW D, 97 . [Link] [DOI] | |
| 2017 | Taylor, P.; Breen, C. (2017) 'Mode-sum prescription for vacuum polarization in black hole spacetimes in even dimensions'. PHYSICAL REVIEW D, 96 . [Link] [DOI] | |
| 2017 | (2017) 'Erratum: Propagation of test particles and scalar fields on a class of wormhole space-times [Phys. Rev. D 90, 024057 (2014)]'. PHYSICAL REVIEW D, . | |
| 2016 | Harte, AI; Flanagan, EE; Taylor, P (2016) 'Self-forces on static bodies in arbitrary dimensions'. Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology, 93 . [DOI] | |
| 2016 | Taylor, P; Breen, C (2016) 'Mode-sum prescription for the vacuum polarization in odd dimensions'. PHYSICAL REVIEW D, 94 . [DOI] | |
| 2015 | Taylor, P; Flanagan, EE (2015) 'Static self-forces in a five-dimensional black hole spacetime'. PHYSICAL REVIEW D, 92 . [DOI] | |
| 2014 | Taylor, P (2014) 'Propagation of test particles and scalar fields on a class of wormhole space-times'. PHYSICAL REVIEW D, 90 . [DOI] | |
| 2013 | Taylor, P (2013) 'Self-force on an arbitrarily coupled static scalar particle in a wormhole space-time'. Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology, 87 . [DOI] | |
| 2012 | Ottewill, AC; Taylor, P (2012) 'Static Kerr Green's function in closed form and an analytic derivation of the self-force for a static scalar charge in Kerr space-time'. Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology, 86 . [DOI] | |
| 2012 | Ottewill, AC; Taylor, P (2012) 'Quantum field theory on the Bertotti-Robinson space-time'. Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology, 86 . [DOI] | |
| 2011 | Ottewill, AC; Taylor, P (2011) 'Renormalized vacuum polarization and stress tensor on the horizon of a Schwarzschild black hole threaded by a cosmic string'. Classical and Quantum Gravity, 28 . [DOI] | |
| 2010 | Ottewill, AC; Taylor, P (2010) 'Vacuum polarization on the Schwarzschild metric threaded by a cosmic string'. Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology, 82 . [DOI] |
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Honors and Awards
Research Interests
My research is mainly concerned with classical and quantum
aspects of black holes. From a quantum perspective, I am interested in
quantum field theory in curved spacetimes and the associated
theory of semi-classical gravity. The most famous prediction
of this approximation--and one of the most surprising and far-reaching
predictions of theoretical physics--is that black holes emit
quantum thermal radiation, the so-called Hawking effect. On
the classical front, I'm interested in the problem of motion
in General Relativity including strong self-interaction
effects. This is particularly important for modeling binary
black hole systems where one black hole is much larger than
the other, a key astrophysical source of
gravitational waves being targeted by the European
Space Agency's eLISA mission.