Carlo Rovelli is an Italian-born physicist who now works at the Centre de Physique Theorique in France. His work is in the field of quantum gravity.
He graduated in 1986, University of Padova, Italy. In 1988, Carlo Rovelli and Lee Smolin have introduced a theory of quantum gravity denoted loop quantum gravity. In 1995, they have obtained an explicit basis of states of quantum gravity, labelled by Penrose's spin networks, and using this basis they have shown that the theory predicts that area and the volume are quantized. This result indicates the existence of a discrete structure of space at very small scale.
External links
- Homepage
- Carlo Rovelli, A Dialog on Quantum Gravity, preprint available as hep-th/0310077
- Loop Quantum Gravity by Carlo Rovelli
- Curriculum Vitae et Studiorum