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Jerusalem Lectures on Black Holes and Quantum Information

High Energy Physics - Theory 2022-02-15 v5 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology Quantum Physics

Abstract

In these lectures I give an introduction to the quantum physics of black holes, including recent developments based on quantum information theory such as the firewall paradox and its various cousins. I also give an introduction to holography and the AdS/CFT correspondence, focusing on those aspects which are relevant for the black hole information problem.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1409.1231,
  title  = {Jerusalem Lectures on Black Holes and Quantum Information},
  author = {Daniel Harlow},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1409.1231},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

v1: a lot of pages and figures. v2: still a lot of pages and figures, now with typos corrected. v3: version accepted to reviews of modern physics. more typo corrections, and a rewrite of section 4.6 for clarity. v4: Dedication to Jacob Bekenstein added, as well as a few references v5: more detailed explanation of Hawking's evaporation rate, minor corrections

R2 v1 2026-06-22T05:47:59.698Z