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most citedSewing spacetime with Lorentzian threads: complexity and the emergence of time in quantum gravity

55 citations · 141 across the 6 of their papers we have counts for

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6 papers

quant-ph2023

Matter relative to quantum hypersurfaces

Philipp A. Hoehn, Andrea Russo, Alexander R. H. Smith

We explore the canonical description of a scalar field as a parameterized field theory on an extended phase space that includes additional embedding fields that characterize spacet…

gr-qc2023★ 21 cited

The weak field limit of quantum matter back-reacting on classical spacetime

Isaac Layton, Jonathan Oppenheim, Andrea Russo +1

Consistent coupling of quantum and classical degrees of freedom exists so long as there is both diffusion of the classical degrees of freedom and decoherence of the quantum system.…

hep-th2022★ 20 cited

Computing spacetime

Juan F. Pedraza, Andrea Russo, Andrew Svesko +1

Inspired by the universality of computation, we advocate for a principle of spacetime complexity, where gravity arises as a consequence of spacetime optimizing the computational co…

hep-th2021★ 55 cited

Sewing spacetime with Lorentzian threads: complexity and the emergence of time in quantum gravity

Juan F. Pedraza, Andrea Russo, Andrew Svesko +1

Holographic entanglement entropy was recently recast in terms of Riemannian flows or 'bit threads'. We consider the Lorentzian analog to reformulate the 'complexity=volume' conject…

hep-th2021★ 45 cited

Lorentzian threads as 'gatelines' and holographic complexity

Juan F. Pedraza, Andrea Russo, Andrew Svesko +1

The continuous min flow-max cut principle is used to reformulate the 'complexity=volume' conjecture using Lorentzian flows -- divergenceless norm-bounded timelike vector fields who…

quant-ph2021

The Second Law of Quantum Complexity and the Entanglement Wormhole

Andrea Russo

This work is originally a Cambridge Part III essay paper. Quantum complexity arises as an alternative measure to the Fubini metric between two quantum states. Given two states and…