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Three Lectures on Complexity and Black Holes

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These three lectures cover a certain aspect of complexity and black holes, namely the relation to the second law of thermodynamics. The first lecture describes the meaning of quantum complexity, the analogy between entropy and complexity, and the second law of complexity. Lecture two reviews the connection between the second law of complexity and the interior of black holes. Prof. L. Susskind discusses how firewalls are related to periods of non-increasing complexity which typically only occur after an exponentially long time. The final lecture is about the thermodynamics of complexity, and uncomplexity as a resource for doing computational work. The author explains the remarkable power of one clean qubit, in both computational terms and in space-time terms.

This book is intended for graduate students and researchers who want to take the first steps towards the mysteries of black holes and their complexity.
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Additional ISBN/GTIN9783030451097
Product TypeE-book
BindingE-book
FormatPDF
FormatReflowable
Publication townCham
Publication countrySwitzerland
Publishing date11/05/2020
Edition1st ed. 2020
LanguageEnglish
File size3407187 Bytes
IllustrationsVIII, 100 p. 85 illus., 80 illus. in color., 5 s/w Abbildungen, 80 farbige Abbildungen
Article no.9250643
CatalogsVC
Data source no.2420530
Product groupBU646
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Leonard Susskind is an American physicist, who is professor of theoretical physics at Stanford University, and founding director of the Stanford Institute for Theoretical Physics. His research interests include string theory, quantum field theory, quantum statistical mechanics and quantum cosmology.
He is a member of the US National Academy of Sciences, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, an associate member of the faculty of Canada's Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, and a distinguished professor of the Korea Institute for Advanced Study.
Susskind is widely regarded as one of the fathers of string theory. He was the first to give a precise string-theoretic interpretation of the holographic principle in 1995 and the first to introduce the idea of the string theory landscape in 2003.
Susskind was awarded the 1998 J. J. Sakurai Prize, and the 2018 Oskar Klein Medal.

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