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Erick Muiño García

Erick Muiño García — Graduate Student
Office: 321A Whitmore Laboratory
Address: 104 Davey Lab
erickmuino@psu.edu
Erick Muiño García
Physics Quantum Universe CFT

As a PhD candidate in Physics, I explore how the strange rules of quantum mechanics—like entanglement and typicality—can explain why large quantum systems behave thermodynamically. My research bridges quantum information theory and statistical mechanics, with applications in both many-body physics, quantum field theory, and gravity.

ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5631-0791

About our wordmark
Monica Rincon Ramirez

The IGC wordmark was created by Monica Rincon Ramirez while she was a graduate student at the Institute. Monica enjoys drawing new connections between fundamental theory and observations. Her graduate work included general relativity, loop quantum gravity, and quantum fields in cosmological backgrounds; her thesis focused on effective quantum corrections to gravitational phenomena from spinfoams and applications to cosmology. She received her PhD in 2024.

The wordmark symbolizes the scope of research at the IGC. The base represents quantum gravity, evoking the quantum geometrical picture from spinfoams and loop quantum gravity — approaches studied at the Center for Fundamental Theory. The middle shows galaxies embedded in a smooth surface characteristic of spacetime in general relativity and the larger physical scales studied at the Center for Theoretical and Observational Cosmology. The top curves to an extreme representing a supermassive black hole accompanied by an energetic jet, with a binary black hole pair nearby — the high-energy phenomena studied at the Center for Multimessenger Astrophysics.