2018 CAP Congress / Congrès de l'ACP 2018

Black holes, wormholes and entangled states

12 Jun 2018, 17:00

45m

McCain Ondaatji Hall (cap.500) (Dalhousie University)

Plenary Speaker / Conférencier(ère) plénier(ère) Herzberg Public, Plenary, and Medal Talks / Conférenciers des sessions Herzberg, plénières et médaillés (CAP-ACP) T-PLEN Plenary Session / Session plénière - Juan Maldacena, Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton

Speaker

Prof. Juan Maldacena (Institute for Advanced Studies in Princeton, NJ)

Description

We think that black holes are ordinary quantum systems with a finite number of microstates, when we view them from the outside.

A pair of black holes can then be entangled with each other. A special entangled state of this kind can be described by a geometry similar to the maximally extended Schwarzschild black hole. This geometry is a non-traversable wormhole.

We will discuss how to make the wormhole traversable, viewing the process as an example of quantum teleportation.