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most citedGravitational back-reaction is magical

18 citations · 20 across the 8 of their papers we have counts for

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8 papers

hep-th2026

Approximate locality, black hole complementarity and overlapping qubits

ChunJun Cao, Gong Cheng, Alexander Jahn +1

We construct a toy model of an evaporating black hole using approximately local degrees of freedom acting on ``overlapping" qubits in which a version of black hole complementarity…

quant-ph2026

Observation of gravity-like signatures in holographic codes on a quantum computer

Debopriyo Biswas, Gong Cheng, Krishnanand Karthikeyan +12

The unification of quantum mechanics and general relativity remains one of the major open problems of theoretical physics. The Anti-de Sitter/Conformal Field Theory (AdS/CFT) corre…

quant-ph2026

Demystifying Objectivity with Operator Algebra Quantum Error Correction

Marin Girard, Gong Cheng, ChunJun Cao

Quantum Darwinism extends the decoherence formalism to explain how objectivity emerges from quantum mechanics. However, existing approaches often capture only partial aspects of ob…

hep-th2026

End-of-the-World Singularities: The Good, the Bad, and the Heated-up

José Calderón-Infante, Gongrui Cheng, Alvaro Herráez +1

We revisit codimension-one End-of-the-World curvature singularities that drive scalars to infinite distance in field-space and have appeared in the context of dynamical cobordisms.…

hep-th2026

State-dependent geometries from magic-enriched quantum codes

ChunJun Cao, Gong Cheng, Krishnanand Karthikeyan +2

Quantum error-correcting codes provide a powerful framework for emergent spacetime, yet existing subsystem erasure-correcting holographic code models describe only quantum fields o…

quant-ph2025

An efficient algorithm to compute entanglement in states with low magic

ChunJun Cao, Gong Cheng, Tianci Zhou

A bottleneck for analyzing the interplay between magic and entanglement is the computation of these quantities in highly entangled quantum many-body magic states. Efficient extract…

hep-th2024★ 18 cited

Gravitational back-reaction is magical

ChunJun Cao, Gong Cheng, Alioscia Hamma +3

We study the interplay between magic and entanglement in quantum many-body systems. We show that non-local magic, which is supported by the quantum correlations is lower bounded by…

hep-th2024★ 2 cited

Holographic phenomenology via overlapping degrees of freedom

Oliver Friedrich, ChunJun Cao, Sean M. Carroll +2

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…