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We show that the concept of entropy and the dynamics of gravitation provide the linchpin in a unified scheme to understand the physics of black hole computers, space-time foam, dark energy, dark matter and the phenomenon of turbulence. We…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-01-08 Y. Jack Ng

In an approach to quantum gravity where space-time arises from coarse graining of fundamentally discrete structures, black hole formation and subsequent evaporation can be described by a unitary evolution without the problems encountered by…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-23 Alejandro Perez

In this paper we describe the structure of extremal stationary spherically symmetric black hole solutions in the STU model of D=4, N=2 supergravity in terms of four-qubit systems. Our analysis extends the results of previous investigations…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-20 Péter Lévay

We study conformally-invariant theories of gravity in six dimensions. In four dimensions, there is a unique such theory that is polynomial in the curvature and its derivatives, namely Weyl-squared, and furthermore all solutions of Einstein…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-05-21 H. Lu , Y. Pang , C. N. Pope

These notes are a didactic overview of the non perturbative and background independent approach to a quantum theory of gravity known as loop quantum gravity. The definition of real connection variables for general relativity, used as a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-09-29 Alejandro Perez

Recently, there has been increased interest in understanding entanglement and quantum communication in black hole spacetimes and in using quantum information techniques to address questions in gravity. Studies on relativistic entanglement…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-06-02 E. Martin-Martinez

This paper elaborates on an intrinsically quantum approach to gravity, which begins with a general framework for quantum mechanics and then seeks to identify additional mathematical structure on Hilbert space that is responsible for gravity…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-03-27 Steven B. Giddings

A novel theory of Quantum Gravity is presented in which the real gravitons manifest themselves as holes in space. In general, these holes propagate at the speed of light through an expanding universe with boundary denoted by U, which is…

General Physics · Physics 2015-08-26 Gregory W. Horndeski

A foundational result in relativistic quantum information theory due to Peres, Scudo, and Terno, is that von Neumann entropy is not Lorentz invariant. Motivated by the "It from Qubit" paradigm, here we show that Lorentzian symmetries of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-10 James Fullwood , Vlatko Vedral , Edgar Guzmán-González

The black-hole information paradox has fueled a fascinating effort to reconcile the predictions of general relativity and those of quantum mechanics. Gravitational considerations teach us that black holes must trap everything that falls…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-07-07 Samuel L. Braunstein , Hans-Jürgen Sommers , Karol Życzkowski

We show how the quantum potential arises in various ways and trace its connection to quantum fluctuations and Fisher information along with its realization in terms of Weyl curvature. It is a quantization factor for certain classical…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Robert Carroll

Quantum entanglement, crucial for understanding quantum many-body systems and quantum gravity, is commonly assessed through various measures such as von Neumann entropy, mutual information, and entanglement contour, each with its inherent…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-08 Liang-Hong Mo , Yao Zhou , Jia-Rui Sun , Peng Ye

An examination of the constraints of quantum gravity leads to a clear physical picture for how information about the initial state is transferred to the Hawking radiation that emerges from a black hole.

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-02-25 Suvrat Raju

We introduce exceptional field theory for the group E_{7(7)}, based on a (4+56)-dimensional spacetime subject to a covariant section condition. The `internal' generalized diffeomorphisms of the coordinates in the fundamental representation…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-05-01 Olaf Hohm , Henning Samtleben

The thermodynamic behaviours of multi-horizon black holes such as a Schwarzschild-de Sitter black hole have been one of the long-standing mysteries in gravitational physics since they involve quantum natures in gravitational systems and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-25 Ratchaphat Nakarachinda , Lunchakorn Tannukij , Pitayuth Wongjun , Tanapat Deesuwan

A `black hole sector' of non-perturbative canonical quantum gravity is introduced. The quantum black hole degrees of freedom are shown to be described by a Chern-Simons field theory on the horizon. It is shown that the entropy of a large…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-30 A. Ashtekar , J. Baez , A. Corichi , K. Krasnov

Quantum black holes have been studied extensively in quantum gravity and string theory, using various semiclassical or background dependent approaches. We explore the possibility of studying black holes in the full non-perturbative quantum…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-02-22 Kirill Krasnov , Carlo Rovelli

There is natural association of entropy with gravitational systems on one hand and partition of natural numbers on the other hand. We show that given a partition of natural numbers, it is possible to directly associate a metric with it.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-06-03 Atreya Chatterjee

Quantum Field Theory (QFT) introduced us to the notion that a causal diamond in space-time corresponded to a subsystem of a quantum mechanical system defined on the global space-time. Work by Jacobson\cite{ted95}, Fischler and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-09-23 T. Banks

Einstein-frame supergravity is accompanied by quantum correction terms because of super-Weyl transformation. The correction term consists of the field strength terms that respectively originate from gauge, gravitational, and K\"ahler…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-06-21 Akihisa D. -E. Tateishi