Some observations on the degrees of freedom of quantum gravity
Some observations on the degrees of freedom of quantum gravity
- Event time: 1:00pm until 2:00pm
- Event date: 28th October 2016
- Speaker: Jan de Boer (University of Amsterdam)
- Location: Higgs Centre Seminar Room, Room 4305, James Clerk Maxwell Building (JCMB) James Clerk Maxwell Building Peter Guthrie Tait Road Edinburgh EH9 3FD GB
Event details
Recent work has made it clear that gravity is an example of an emergent phenomenon: there exists a large number of strongly interacting, microscopic degrees of freedom and gravity is merely an approximate long-distance description of these degrees of freedom. The situation is somewhat analogous to thermodynamics, which is also an approximate description of the collective behavior of many microscopic degrees of freedom. I will describe some recent progress in this area, including possible implications for black hole physics, and tantalizing connections with notions originally developed in the context of quantum information theory.
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