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We develop a formalism for calculating the entanglement entropy of an arbitrary spatial region of a gravitating spacetime at a moment of time symmetry. The crucial ingredient is a path integral over embeddings of the region into the overall…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-01-12 Vijay Balasubramanian , Charlie Cummings

The holographic principle suggests that regions of space contain fewer physical degrees of freedom than would be implied by conventional quantum field theory. Meanwhile, in Hilbert spaces of large dimension $2^n$, it is possible to define…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-08-15 Oliver Friedrich , ChunJun Cao , Sean M. Carroll , Gong Cheng , Ashmeet Singh

Our purpose here is to introduce the idea of viewing the spacetime as a macroscopic complex system which, consequently, cannot be directly quantized. It should be thought of as a collection of more fundamental "microscopical" entities…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Marcelo Botta Cantcheff

It is well known that nonrelativistic quantum mechanics presents a clear asymmetry between space and time. Much of this asymmetry is attributed to the lack of Lorentz invariance of the theory. Nonetheless, a recent work [Phys. Rev. A…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-12-12 Ricardo Ximenes , Eduardo O. Dias

Quantum gravity is expected to contain descriptions of semiclassical spacetime geometries in quantum superpositions. To date, no framework for modelling such superpositions has been devised. Here, we provide a new phenomenological…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-05-11 Joshua Foo , Robert B. Mann , Magdalena Zych

We review two approaches to the definition of the Hilbert space and evolution in mechanical theories with local time-reparametrization invariance, which are often used as toy models of quantum gravity. The first approach is based on the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-10-20 Leonardo Chataignier

Beginning with the principle that a closed mechanical composite system is timeless, time can be defined by the regular changes in a suitable position coordinate (clock) in the observing part, when one part of the closed composite observes…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-10-05 John S. Briggs

We consider Hilbert's sixth problem on the axiomatization of physics starting with a higher degree Heisenberg commutation relation involving the Dirac operator and the Feynman slash of scalar fields. The two sided version of the commutation…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-06-13 Ali H. Chamseddine

Inspired by its fundamental importance in quantum mechanics, we define and study the notion of entanglement for abstract physical theories, investigating its profound connection with the concept of superposition. We adopt the formalism of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-10-11 Guillaume Aubrun , Ludovico Lami , Carlos Palazuelos

Symmetries and isomorphisms play similar conceptual roles when we consider how models represent physical situations, but they are formally distinct, as two models related by symmetries are not typically isomorphic. I offer a rigorous…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2024-07-22 Lu Chen

We consider the emergence from quantum entanglement of spacetime geometry in a bulk region. For certain classes of quantum states in an appropriately factorized Hilbert space, a spatial geometry can be defined by associating areas along…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-04-11 ChunJun Cao , Sean M. Carroll

In a previous work [arXiv:2009.03428] we proposed a new model for Quantum GRavity(QGR) and cosmology, dubbed $SU(\infty)$-QGR. One of the axioms of this model is that Hilbert spaces of the Universe and its subsystems represent $SU(\infty)$…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-01-04 Houri Ziaeepour

We examine the Hessian potential that derives the flat Minkowski spacetime in $(1+1)$-dimension. The entanglement thermodynamics by the Hessian geometry enables us to obtain the entanglement entropy of a corresponding quantum state by means…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-08-20 Hiroaki Matsueda

Canonical quantization of spherically symmetric space-times is carried out, using real-valued densitized triads and extrinsic curvature components, with specific factor ordering choices ensuring in an anomaly free quantum constraint…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-05 Suddhasattwa Brahma

We present a natural generalization of holographic entanglement entropy proposals beyond the scope of AdS/CFT by anchoring extremal surfaces to holographic screens. Holographic screens are a natural extension of the AdS boundary to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-11-02 Fabio Sanches , Sean J. Weinberg

We present a comprehensive introduction to spacetime algebra that emphasizes its practicality and power as a tool for the study of electromagnetism. We carefully develop this natural (Clifford) algebra of the Minkowski spacetime geometry,…

Optics · Physics 2015-07-03 Justin Dressel , Konstantin Y. Bliokh , Franco Nori

This talk discusses the relation between spacetime-dependent scalars, such as couplings or fields, and the violation of Lorentz symmetry. A specific cosmological supergravity model demonstrates how scalar fields can acquire time-dependent…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-11-03 Ralf Lehnert

We propose a holographic correspondence of the flat spacetime based on the behavior of the entanglement entropy and the correlation functions. The holographic dual theory turns out to be highly non-local. We argue that after most part of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-04-20 Wei Li , Tadashi Takayanagi

We propose a holographic formalism for a timelike entanglement entropy in non-conformal theories. This pseudoentropy is a complex-valued measure of information, which, in holographic non-conformal theories, receives contributions from a set…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-04-03 Mir Afrasiar , Jaydeep Kumar Basak , Dimitrios Giataganas

The fundamental groupoid of a space becomes enriched over the category of topological spaces when the hom-sets are endowed with topologies intimately related to universal constructions of topological groups. This paper is devoted to a…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2012-04-30 Jeremy Brazas