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hep-th2015★ 4 cited
Why Boltzmann Brains Don't Fluctuate Into Existence From the De Sitter Vacuum
Kimberly K. Boddy, Sean M. Carroll, Jason Pollack
Many modern cosmological scenarios feature large volumes of spacetime in a de Sitter vacuum phase. Such models are said to be faced with a "Boltzmann Brain problem" - the overwhelm…
hep-th2015★ 94 cited
Consistency Conditions for an AdS/MERA Correspondence
Ning Bao, ChunJun Cao, Sean M. Carroll +4
The Multi-scale Entanglement Renormalization Ansatz (MERA) is a tensor network that provides an efficient way of variationally estimating the ground state of a critical quantum sys…