QuICS Seminar: Chris Akers (IAS)

Title:  One-shot quantum information theory and quantum gravity
Speaker: Chris Akers (IAS)
Time:  Wednesday, April 17, 2024 - 11:00am
Location:  ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/96272644488?pwd=cCtXejhUV0ttMmhVQjkyUFJ5cG9jQT09 Meeting ID: 962 7264 4488 Passcode: 573131

The unification of quantum mechanics and gravity is a major outstanding goal. One modern approach to understanding this unification goes by the name ``holography’’, in which gravity can be understood as an emergent description of some more fundamental, purely quantum mechanical system. In this talk I will describe some recent results in holography that elucidate how this emergence works. A starring role will be played by one-shot quantum information theory.

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