Gravity from Quantum Information
High Energy Physics - Theory
2020-09-25 v3 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Quantum Physics
Abstract
It is suggested that the Einstein equation can be derived from Landauer's principle applied to an information erasing process at a local Rindler horizon and Jacobson's idea linking the Einstein equation with thermodynamics. When matter crosses the horizon, the information of the matter disappears and the horizon entanglement entropy increases to compensate the entropy reduction. The Einstein equation describes an information-energy relation during this process, which implies that entropic gravity is related to the quantum entanglement of the vacuum and has a quantum information theoretic origin.
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@article{arxiv.1001.5445,
title = {Gravity from Quantum Information},
author = {Jae-Weon Lee and Hyeong-Chan Kim and Jungjai Lee},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1001.5445},
year = {2020}
}
Comments
7 pages, revtex4-1, 2 figures, recent supporting results added