RUI: Quantum Information in Matrix Black Holes and Black Hole Horizons in String Theory

RUI：弦理论中矩阵黑洞和黑洞视界中的量子信息

• 批准号: 1415101
• 负责人: Vatche Sahakian
• 金额: $ 9万
• 依托单位: Harvey Mudd College
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2014
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2014-07-01 至 2017-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1415101&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: RUI; Quantum; Information; Matrix; Black

This award funds the research activities of Professor Vatche Sahakian at Harvey Mudd College. The project addresses fundamental questions at the boundary of our knowledge involving general relativity and quantum mechanics, in short, quantum gravity. The proposal explores several keys ideas in string theory and quantum gravity: the accounting of information in black holes, and the understanding of black hole surface dynamics. The accounting of information in black holes has been a topic of great discussion recently, since black hole dynamics seem to violate some basic principles of quantum mechanics involving the destruction of information, and black hole surface dynamics have recently shed light on possible resolutions of this conundrum. Hence, the research addresses fundamental questions in two general areas of theoretical physics: scrambling of information in quantum information theory, and black hole physics in quantum gravity.The accomplishments expected from the project are: A better understanding of the mechanics of information scrambling in black holes; A better understanding of black hole evaporation and the details of entanglement evolution in the process of transferring information from a black hole to the outside; A better understanding of the nature of the black hole horizon; The development of new highly multi-threaded algorithms in computational physics as applied to understanding black hole dynamics in string theory. An extensive undergraduate research program is part of the proposal, including: a course development component for an undergraduate course on modern topics in theoretical physics, providing students with solid foundations for graduate school; and the associated preparation of an undergraduate textbook on classical field theory.

该奖项资助哈维穆德学院教授Vatche Sahakian的研究活动。该项目解决了我们知识边界上的基本问题，涉及广义相对论和量子力学，简而言之，量子引力。 该提案探讨了弦理论和量子引力中的几个关键思想：黑洞中信息的会计，以及黑洞表面动力学的理解。 黑洞中信息的计算最近一直是一个热门话题，因为黑洞动力学似乎违反了量子力学的一些基本原理，涉及信息的破坏，而黑洞表面动力学最近揭示了这个难题的可能解决方案。 因此，该研究涉及理论物理学的两个一般领域的基本问题：量子信息论中的信息置乱和量子引力中的黑洞物理。该项目的预期成果是：更好地理解黑洞中信息置乱的机制;更好地理解黑洞蒸发和从黑洞向外传递信息过程中纠缠演化的细节;更好地理解黑洞视界的性质;在计算物理学中开发新的高度多线程算法，用于理解弦理论中的黑洞动力学。一个广泛的本科生研究计划是提案的一部分，包括：理论物理现代主题本科课程的课程开发部分，为学生提供研究生院的坚实基础;以及经典场论本科教科书的相关准备。