Three Lectures on Complexity and Black Holes pdf

Leonard Susskind (nato nel giugno 1940) è il professore di fisica teorica Felix Bloch alla Stanford University e direttore dello Stanford Institute for Theoretical Physics. I suoi interessi di ricerca includono la teoria delle stringhe, la teoria quantistica dei campi, la meccanica statistica quantistica e la cosmologia quantistica. È membro della National Academy of Sciences degli Stati Uniti e dell'American Academy of Arts and Sciences, membro associato della facoltà del Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics del Canada e un illustre professore del Korea Institute for Advanced Study.

Three Lectures on Complexity and Black Holes pdf da Leonard Susskind

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.