Paul R. Anderson

Paul Anderson is a Professor of Physics at Wake Forest University and holds the MacDonough Family Faculty Fellow title. He works in the Physics Department, focusing on research at the intersection of theoretical physics, cosmology, and quantum field theory.

His research explores

• Quantum effects in curved spacetime
• Black hole physics and Hawking radiation
• Acoustic black hole analogs in Bose-Einstein condensates
• Preinflationary and post-inflationary cosmology
• Stress-energy tensor dynamics during black hole formation
• Semiclassical approximation validity in extreme conditions

Recent publications analyze

• Correlation patterns in analog black holes
• Decay mechanisms of de Sitter vacuum
• Black hole remnants post-inflation
• Quantum particle production in acoustic spacetimes
• Breakdown of semiclassical gravity
• Infrared divergences in low-dimensional systems

spanning applications from cosmological singularities to laboratory-scale analogs.

He has secured multiple NSF grants (PHY-2309186, PHY-1912584, PHY-1505875, PHY-1308325, PHY-0856050) for computational modeling and theoretical investigations, with a focus on numerical relativity and quantum field simulations.