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Three Lectures on Complexity and Black Holes

Three Lectures on Complexity and Black Holes

by Leonard Susskind
Paperback
Publication Date: 12/05/2020

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These three lectures cover a certain aspect of complexity and black holes, namely the relation to the second law of thermodynamics. The first lecture describes the meaning of quantum complexity, the analogy between entropy and complexity, and the second law of complexity. Lecture two reviews the connection between the second law of complexity and the interior of black holes. Prof. L. Susskind discusses how firewalls are related to periods of non-increasing complexity which typically only occur after an exponentially long time. The final lecture is about the thermodynamics of complexity, and "uncomplexity" as a resource for doing computational work. The author explains the remarkable power of "one clean qubit," in both computational terms and in space-time terms.

This book is intended for graduate students and researchers who want to take the first steps towards the mysteries of black holes and their complexity.


ISBN:
9783030451080
9783030451080
Category:
Theoretical & mathematical astronomy
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
12-05-2020
Language:
English
Publisher:
Springer International Publishing AG
Country of origin:
Switzerland
Dimensions (mm):
235x155mm
Weight:
0.45kg
Leonard Susskind

Leonard Susskind has been the Felix Bloch Professor in Theoretical Physics at Stanford University since 1978, and his online lectures are viewed all around the world.

One of the fathers of string theory, he is the author of The Black Hole War and The Cosmic Landscape.

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