Spacetime as a quantum error-correcting code?

Jonathan Bain

doi:10.1016/j.shpsb.2020.04.002

Spacetime as a quantum error-correcting code?

Jonathan Bain

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Abstract

This essay considers an interpretation of the AdS/CFT correspondence under which the bulk and the boundary emerge from a more fundamental discrete system that realizes the structure of an erasure-protection quantum error-correcting code (QECC). I consider the extent to which this view underwrites the claim that spacetime is a QECC (as some authors have suggested), and how it fits into recent schemes of realist interpretations of dualities.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	26-36
Number of pages	11
Journal	Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part B - Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics
Volume	71
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.shpsb.2020.04.002
State	Published - Aug 2020

ASJC Scopus subject areas

History
Physics and Astronomy(all)
History and Philosophy of Science

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