Course Identification

Title:

Black Holes and Quantum Information

Code:

20181232

Lecturers and Teaching Assistants

Lecturers:

Prof. Micha Berkooz

TA's:

N/A

Course Schedule and Location

Year:

2018

Semester:

Second Semester

When / Where:

Wednesday, 11:15 - 14:00, Weissman, Seminar Rm A

First Lecture:

21/03/2018

Field of Study, Course Type and Credit Points

Physical Sciences: Lecture; Elective; 3.00 points
Chemical Sciences: Elective; 3.00 points

Comments

N/A

Prerequisites

Any first course in field theory (such as QMII).

Any first course in General relativity.

Restrictions

Participants:

15

Language of Instruction

English

Attendance and participation

Expected and Recommended

Grade Type

Numerical (out of 100)

Grade Breakdown (in %)

Attendance

30%

Final:

70%

Evaluation Type

Final assignment

Scheduled date 1

Date / due date

N/A

Location

N/A

Time

-

Remarks

N/A

Estimated Weekly Independent Workload (in hours)

4

Syllabus

EPR, Bell inequalities.

Entanglement, Von Neumann entropy

Quantum computation

BH, Wormholes

Quantization in curved space

Hawking radiation, BH thermodynamics

AMPS

BH micrtostate counting

AdS/CFT and the Ryu-Takayanagi formula

Advanced topics

Learning Outcomes

Upon successful completion of the course, the students will be familiar with:

1. Concepts in quantum information theory such as Bell inequalities, EPR, entanglement and quantum computation.

2. The black hole quantum information paradox.

3. The insights and puzzles into the above using string theory and the AdS/CF correspondence.

Reading List

TBA

Website

N/A