Archive of IAS Physics Group Meetings

(Building on work by Sachdev, Ye, Parcollet and Georges) Kitaev has proposed a simple quantum mechanical model as a dual to an AdS_2 black hole. It would be nice to understand the bulk theory. (Is it local? Is there randomness? How is conformal...

Euclidean wormholes are simple solutions such as the one discussed in
the attached paper by Giddings and Strominger. (see email)
You can also have a look at the attached paper by Coleman.
You can also look at http://arxiv.org/abs/0705.2768 and find...

I will introduce polynomial congruences and indicate why number theorists might care about them. I will then describe reciprocity laws which predict the number of solutions to a polynomial congruence in terms of discrete subgroups of Lie groups. The...

I will describe recent work explaining how several paradoxical features of bulk locality in AdS/CFT can be explained by interpreting the CFT as a quantum error correcting code. Time permitting I will also present an explicit discrete model of this...