The Early Universe as a Quantum Growing Network

Abstract

We consider a quantum gravity register that is a particular quantum memory register which grows with time, and whose qubits are pixels of area of quantum de Sitter horizons. At each time step, the vacuum state of this quantum register grows because of the uncertainty in quantum information induced by the vacuum quantum fluctuations. The resulting virtual states, (responsible for the speed up of growth, i.e., inflation), are operated on by quantum logic gates and transformed into qubits. The model of quantum growing network (QGN) described here is exactly solvable, and (apart from its cosmological implications), can be regarded as the first attempt toward a future model for the quantum World-Wide Web. We also show that the bound on the speed of computation, the bound on clock precision, and the holographic bound, are saturated by the QGN.

17 pages, 2 figures.Contribution to the IQSA Fifth Conference, March 31 - April 5, 2001, Cesena-Cesenatico, Italy. Submitted to General Relativity and Gravitation. References added

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