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PU High Energy Theory Seminar
The Black Hole Interior from Non-Isometric Codes and Complexity
This talk will be held in-person and via Zoom:
https://princeton.zoom.us/j/97248927011?pwd=SWFiNWFwZWE5SUR4OUxvV0ZacVdWQT09
Abstract: Quantum error correction has given us a natural language for the emergence of spacetime, but the black hole interior poses a challenge for this framework: at late times the apparent number of interior degrees of freedom in effective field theory can vastly exceed the true number of fundamental degrees of freedom, so there can be no isometric (i.e. inner-product preserving) encoding of the former into the latter. I will explain how quantum error correction nonetheless can be used to explain the emergence of the black hole interior, via the idea of “non-isometric codes protected by computational complexity”.
Date & Time
October 24, 2022 | 2:30pm – 3:30pm
Location
Jadwin Hall, PCTS Room 407 & ZoomSpeakers
Christopher Akers
Affiliation
Massachusetts Institute of Technology