Events at: 402 Classroom Physics South (UCB Campus)

Abstract: Recently, Danielson, Satishchandran, and Wald proposed a novel mechanism for decoherence in spacetimes with Killing horizons. When Alice performs a Stern-Gerlach type experiment outside the horizon, there is a fundamental rate of decoherence due to the emission of soft gravitons/photons that radiate away information. In this talk, I will sharpen and generalize this mechanism by recasting the gedankenexperiment in … Read More

Abstract: We analyze the algebra of boundary observables in canonically quantised JT gravity with or without matter. In the absence of matter, this algebra is commutative, generated by the ADM Hamiltonian. After coupling to a bulk quantum field theory, it becomes a highly noncommutative algebra of Type II∞ with a trivial center. As a result, density matrices and entropies on … Read More