Publications and Talks

Highlighted Publications

• T. He, P. Mitra, K. M. Zurek, “An Effective Density Matrix for Vacua in Asymptotically Flat Gravity,” arXiv:2509.13401.

• GQuEST Collaboration including K. M. Zurek, “Photon Counting Interferometry to Detect Geontropic Space-Time Fluctuations with GQuEST”, Phys. Rev. X, 15 (2025) 011034, arXiv:2404.07524.

• M. W. Bub, T. He, P. Mitra, Y. Zhang, K. M. Zurek, “The Quantum Mechanics of a Spherically Symmetric Causal Diamond in Minkowski Space,” Phys. Rev. Lett, 134 (2025) 121501, arXiv:2408.11094.

• K. M. Zurek, “Dark Matter Candidates of a Very Low Mass,” Annual Review of Nuclear and Particle Physics, 74 (2024) 287, arXiv: 2401.03025.

• NANOGrav Collaboration, including Vincent S. H. Lee, Andrea Mitridate and Kathryn M. Zurek, “Searching for Gravitational Waves from Cosmological Phase Transitions with the NANOGrav 12.5 yr Data Set,” Phys. Rev. Lett., 127, 251032 (2021), arXiv:2104.13930.

• Erik Verlinde and Kathryn M. Zurek, “Observational Signatures of Quantum Gravity in Interferometers,” Phys. Lett. B, 822 (2021) 136663, arXiv:1902.08207.

• Yonit Hochberg, Yue Zhao, Kathryn M. Zurek, “Superconducting Detectors for Super Light Dark Matter,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 116 (2016) 011301.

• Kathryn M. Zurek, “Asymmetric Dark Matter: Theories, Signatures and Constraints,” Invited review for Physics Reports, arXiv:1308.0338.

• David E. Kaplan, Markus A. Luty, and Kathryn M. Zurek, “Asymmetric Dark Matter,” Phys. Rev. D, 79, 115016 (2009), arXiv:0901.4117 [hep-ph].

• Matthew J. Strassler and Kathryn M. Zurek, “Echoes of a hidden valley at hadron colliders,” Phys. Lett. B, 651, 374 (2007), hep-ph/0604261.

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In the Press

• “Dark Matter Might Lurk in Its Own Shadow World,” Scientific American (2025)

• “Physicist’s Quest to Understand Dark Matter,” KPCW (2025)

• “The Uncanny Valley of Quantum,” Australian Broadcasting Corp. (2025)

• “Could We Reveal Quantum Gravity in a Tabletop Experiment?,” interview with Daniel Whiteson and Jorge Cham (2023)

• “Why Space Isn’t What You Think It Is,” Conversations on the Quantum World, Caltech Science Exchange (2022)

A Few Talks Available Online

Institute for Advanced Study, Special High Energy Theory Seminar

• From Shockwaves to Gravitational Memory: New Approaches to Flat Space Holography

Fine Institute for Theoretical Physics

• Spacetime Fluctuations from Quantum Gravity in the Infrared

Simons Foundation 

• The Dark Matter Hunter's Guide to the Universe

Institute for Advanced Study, Prospects in Theoretical Physics 

• New Physics - Non-SUSY, Part 1

• New Physics - Non-SUSY, Part 2

Abdus Salam International Center for Theoretical Physics, Summer School on Particle Physics

• Dark Matter, Lecture 1

• Dark Matter, Lecture 2 (slides)

• Dark Matter, Lecture 3 (slides)

University of Michigan Saturday Morning Physics

• The Dark Matter Hunter's Guide to the Universe

KITP Archive

• Observation Signatures of Quantum Gravity in Interferometers

• Inspecting the Higgs for New Weakly Interacting Particles

• Rapporteur Talk on Dark Sector Models