Building up Space-Time with Quantum Entanglement
Abstract
In this essay, we argue that the emergence of classically connected space-times is intimately related to the quantum entanglement of degrees of freedom in a nonperturbative description of quantum gravity. Disentangling the degrees of freedom associated with two regions of space-time results in these regions pulling apart and pinching off from each other in a way that can be quantified by standard measures of entanglement.
- Publication:
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International Journal of Modern Physics D
- Pub Date:
- 2010
- DOI:
- 10.1142/S0218271810018529
- Bibcode:
- 2010IJMPD..19.2429V