2014 CAP Congress / Congrès de l'ACP 2014

Session

(T-MEDAL3) CAP Medal Talk - Mark van Raamsdonk, UBC (CAP-CRM Prize in Theoretical and Mathematical Physics Recipient / Récipiendaire Prix ACP-CRM en physique théorique et mathématique)

T-MEDAL3

17 Jun 2014, 11:45

Laurentian University / Université Laurentienne

446. Gravity and Entanglement

Mark Van Raamsdonk (University of British Columbia)

17/06/2014, 11:45

Plenary Speaker / Conférencier plénier

The AdS/CFT correspondence from string theory provides a quantum theory of gravity in which spacetime and gravitational physics emerges from an ordinary non-gravitational 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 how Einstein's equations can be derived at...