Emergent Space and Entanglement
Emergent Space and Entanglement
- Event time: 1:00pm until 2:00pm
- Event date: 4th July 2023
- Speaker: Sumit Das (University of Kentucky)
- Location: Higgs Centre Seminar Room, Room 4305, James Clerk Maxwell Building (JCMB) (James Clerk Maxwell Building (JCMB)) James Clerk Maxwell Building Peter Guthrie Tait Road Edinburgh EH9 3FD GB
Event details
The holographic correspondence relates a non-gravitational theory to a gravitational theory in a higher number of space-time dimensions. In many instances of holography, the additional space dimensions are emergent: internal degrees of freedom in large matrix valued fields metamorphose into space, and their dynamics becomes re-interpreted as gravitational dynamics. This connection necessitates an understanding of notions of quantum entanglement in target space, rather than in base space. In this talk I will discuss recent progress in defining such notions and how they may lead to a finite entanglement entropy in the resulting gravitational theory. I will also discuss how these notions are of interest to general many-body systems where the quantum states are understood in a first quantized language, but difficult to formulate in second quantization.
Note the unusual weekday (Tuesday), usual hour
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