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Quantum Institute : 2014 Quantum Lunch Seminar Schedule

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  • Coordinator
    Sebastian Deffner
  • Quantum Lunch Location:
    T-Division Conference Room, TA-3,
    Building 123, Room 121





Quantum Institute: Visitor Schedule

The Quantum Lunch is regularly held on Thursdays in the Theoretical Division Conference Room, TA-3, Building 123, Room 121.

The organizing committee includes Malcolm Boshier (P-21), Adolfo del Campo (T-4 & CNLS), Michael Di Rosa (C-PCS), Sebastian Deffner (T-4), Changhyun Ryu (P-21) , Nikolai Sinitsyn (T-4), Rolando Somma (T-4), Christopher Ticknor (T-1), and Wojciech Zurek (T-4).

For more information, or to nominate a speaker, contact Sebastian Deffner.

To add your name to the Quantum Lunch email list, contact Ellie Vigil.

Thursday September 4, 2014
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM

Speaker: Julian Sonner (MIT)

Technical Host: Adolfo del Campo

TOPIC: Geometry and Entanglement

Abstract
Is there a connection between entanglement and space-time geometry? Maldacena and Susskind proposed that entanglement is associated with Einstein-Rosen bridges, also called`non-traversable wormholes'. I will explain some of the arguments that have been proposed in favor of this relationship and then describe how the framework of holographic duality (or 'AdS/CFT') gives a controlled framework to investigate these ideas further. I will approach this question by constructing a holographically dual description of a maximally entangled pair of quarks, using the Schwinger effect at large 't Hooft coupling \lambda in N=4 supersymmetric Yang Mills theory. We shall see that there is indeed a wormhole associated with the dual of the the pair of quarks, when they are causally disconnected.

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