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YOKOKURA Yuki

Doctor of Science, Kyoto University, Japan, 2014

Areas of specialization Quantum Gravity
Quantum Black Hole
Quantum Field Theory
Thermodynamics-Statistical Mechanics
Laboratory/research office
Current research topics
Educational background 2014: Doctor, Kyoto University
2011: Master, Kyoto University
2009: Bachelor, Kyoto University
Professional background 2025-2026: Assistant Professor, Theory Center, High Energy Accelerator Research Organization KEK, Japan
2025: Senior Research Scientist, iTHEMS, RIKEN, Japan
2018-2025: Senior Research Scientist, iTHEMS, RIKEN, Japan
2015-2018: Postdoctoral fellow (SPDR), RIKEN, Japan
2014-2015: The International Centre for Theoretical Sciences (ICTS-TIFR), Postdoctoral fellow
2014: Research fellow, Yukawa Institute, Japan
Licenses
Academic societies Physical Society of Japan

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Courses

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Undergraduate school
  • Mathematics for Science 2
  • Thermodynamics
Graduate school
  • Analytical Mechanics

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Research activities

Research papers
  1. Authors: Etera R. Livine, Yuki Yokokura
    Title: Effective dynamics of spherically symmetric static spacetime
    Journal: Physical Review D, Vol. 112, No. 10, p. 104034
    Year: 2025
  2. Authors: Yuki Yokokura
    Title: Black hole from entropy maximization
    Journal: Physical Review D, Vol. 111, No. 2, p. 026023
    Year: 2025
  3. Authors: Pei-Ming Ho, Hikaru Kawai, Henry Liao, Yuki Yokokura
    Title: 4D Weyl Anomaly and Diversity of the Interior Structure of Quantum Black Hole
    Journal: The European Physical Journal C, Vol. 84, No. 711
    Year: 2024
  4. Authors: Che-Yu Chen, Yuki Yokokura
    Title: Imaging a semiclassical horizonless compact object with strong redshift
    Journal: Phys.Rev.D, Vol. 109, No. 10, p. 104058
    Year: 2024
  5. Authors: Yuki Yokokura
    Title: Self-gravity and Bekenstein-Hawking entropy
    Journal: Nuclear Physics B, Vol. 1002, p. 116531
    Year: 2024
  6. Authors: Hikaru Kawai, Yuki Yokokura
    Title: Interior metric of slowly formed black holes in a heat bath
    Journal: Physical Review D, Vol. 105, No. 4, p. 045017
    Year: 2022
  7. Authors: Pei-Ming Ho, Hikaru Kawai, Yuki Yokokura
    Title: Planckian physics comes into play at Planckian distance from horizon
    Journal: Journal of High Energy Physics, Vol. 2022, No. 19
    Year: 2022
  8. Authors: Pei-Ming Ho, Yoshinori Matsuo, Yuki Yokokura
    Title: Distance between collapsing matter and apparent horizon in evaporating black holes
    Journal: Phys. Rev. D, Vol. 104, No. 6, p. 064005
    Year: 2021
  9. Authors: Pei-Ming Ho, Yuki Yokokura
    Title: Firewall from Effective Field Theory
    Journal: Universe, Vol. 7, No. 7, p. 241
    Year: 2021
  10. Authors: Pei-Ming Ho, Yoshinori Matsuo, Yuki Yokokura
    Title: Analytic description of semiclassical black-hole geometry
    Journal: Phys. Rev. D, Vol. 102, No. 2, p. 024090
    Year: 2020
  11. Authors: Hikaru Kawai, Yuki Yokokura
    Title: Black Hole as a Quantum Field Configuration
    Journal: Universe, Vol. 6, No. 6, p. 77
    Year: 2020
  12. Authors: Shin-ichi Sasa, Sho Sugiura, Yuki Yokokura
    Title: Thermodynamical path integral and emergent symmetry
    Journal: Phys. Rev. E, Vol. 99, No. 2, p. 022109
    Year: 2019
  13. Authors: Pei-Ming Ho, Hikaru Kawai, Yoshinori Matsuo, Yuki Yokokura
    Title: Back Reaction of 4D Conformal Fields on Static Geometry
    Journal: Journal of High Energy Physics, Vol. 2018, No. 56
    Year: 2018
  14. Authors: Hikaru Kawai, Yuki Yokokura
    Title: A Model of Black Hole Evaporation and 4D Weyl Anomaly
    Journal: Universe, Vol. 3, No. 2, p. 51
    Year: 2017
  15. Authors: Shin-ichi Sasa, Yuki Yokokura
    Title: Thermodynamic entropy as a Noether invariant
    Journal: Phys. Rev. Lett., Vol. 116, No. 14, p. 140601
    Year: 2016
  16. Authors: Hikaru Kawai, Yuki Yokokura
    Title: Interior of Black Holes and Information Recovery
    Journal: Phys. Rev. D, Vol. 93, No. 4, p. 044011
    Year: 2016
  17. Authors: Laurent Freidel, Yuki Yokokura
    Title: Non-equilibrium thermodynamics of gravitational screens
    Journal: Classical and Quantum Gravity, Vol. 32, No. 21, p. 215002
    Year: 2015
  18. Authors: Hikaru Kawai, Yuki Yokokura
    Title: Phenomenological Description of the Interior of the Schwarzschild Black Hole
    Journal: International Journal of Modern Physics A, Vol. 30, No. 15, p. 1550091
    Year: 2015
  19. Authors: Hikaru Kawai, Yoshinori Matsuo, Yuki Yokokura
    Title: A Self-consistent Model of the Black Hole Evaporation
    Journal: International Journal of Modern Physics A, Vol. 28, No. 14, p. 1350050
    Year: 2013
  20. Authors: Yuki Yokokura
    Title: Entropy Balance Equation of Spacetime Thermodynamics in f(R) Gravity
    Journal: International Journal of Modern Physics A, Vol. 27, No. 27, p. 1250160
    Year: 2012

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Social activities

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