Title: Quantum Extremal Surfaces in the Flat-Space Limit of AdS/CFT and the Entropy of Black Hole Radiation
Project Description:
Modern physics is described by two separate theories: general relativity for large-scale phenomena and quantum field theory for small-scale phenomena. The field of research aiming to combine these two theories into a single theory to describe the universe at all scales is called quantum gravity. A hint towards progress in quantum gravity is provided by the information loss paradox in which the information contained in black holes is lost in random thermal radiation as they evaporate. The objective of this research is to better understand how information conservation is preserved in a particular class of black hole spacetimes by considering an extension of the AdS/CFT correspondence for black holes that are asymptotically flat.
Hometown: Burke, Virginia
Department: Physics
Advisor: Joshua Erlich
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