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hep-th2023

Non-local computation and the black hole interior

Alex May, Michelle Xu

In a two sided black hole, systems falling in from opposite asymptotic regions can meet inside the black hole and interact. This is the case even while the two CFTs describing each…

hep-th2023

Constraints on physical computers in holographic spacetimes

Aleksander M. Kubicki, Alex May, David Pérez-Garcia

Within the setting of the AdS/CFT correspondence, we ask about the power of computers in the presence of gravity. We show that there are computations on qubits which cannot be…

hep-th202219 cited

The connected wedge theorem and its consequences

Alex May, Jonathan Sorce, Beni Yoshida

In the AdS/CFT correspondence, bulk causal structure has consequences for boundary entanglement. In quantum information science, causal structures can be replaced by distributed en…

hep-th2021

Bulk private curves require large conditional mutual information

Alex May

We prove a theorem showing that the existence of "private" curves in the bulk of AdS implies two regions of the dual CFT share strong correlations. A private curve is a causal curv…

hep-th2021

Negative energy enhancement in layered holographic conformal field theories

Alex May, Petar Simidzija, Mark Van Raamsdonk

Using a holographic model, we study quantum field theories with a layer of one CFT surrounded by another CFT, on either a periodic or an infinite direction. We study the vacuum ene…

hep-th2021

Quantum tasks require islands on the brane

Alex May, David Wakeham

In recent work, it was argued that quantum computations with inputs and outputs distributed in spacetime, or quantum tasks, impose constraints on entanglement in holographic theori…