Gravity and Entanglement
May 1, 2018 - 4:00pm
Speaker:
Mark Van Raamsdonk
Institution:
UBC
The AdS/CFT correspondence provides a quantum theory of gravity in which spacetime and gravitational physics emerge from an ordinary non-gravitational quantum system with many degrees of freedom. In this talk, I will explain how quantum entanglement between these degrees of freedom is crucial for the emergence of a classical spacetime, and describe progress in understanding how spacetime dynamics (gravitation) arises from the physics of quantum entanglement.
Physical Sciences Complex Lobby