Dr Luke Butcher

Career

• 2011-date: Research Fellow, Jesus College, Cambridge
• 2007-2011: PhD Student, Astrophysics Group, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge

Research

Luke is a member of the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, in the Relativity & Gravitation group. His current research interests include classical and quantum gravity, gravitational waves, gravitational entropy and dark energy. His PhD research focused on developing a local description of the energy, momentum and spin carried by gravitational waves.
 

Selected Publications

• Localized Energetics of Linear Gravity: Theoretical Development
  L. M. Butcher, M. P. Hobson, A. N. Lasenby  Physical Review D 86, 084013 (2012)
• Localizing the Angular Momentum of Linear Gravity
  L. M. Butcher, A. N. Lasenby, M. P. Hobson  Physical Review D 86, 084012 (2012)
• Localizing the Energy and Momentum of Linear Gravity
  L. M. Butcher, M. P. Hobson, A. N. Lasenby Physical Review D 82, 104040 (2010)
• Bootstrapping Gravity: A Consistent Approach to Energy-Momentum Self-Coupling
  L. M. Butcher, M. P. Hobson, A. N. Lasenby Physical Review D 80, 084014 (2009)
• Physical Significance of the Babak-Grishchuk Gravitational Energy-Momentum Tensor
  L. M. Butcher, A. N. Lasenby, M. P. Hobson Physical Review D 78, 064034 (2008)