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Physics Colloquium: "Quantum aspects of black hole physics"
Osmond Lab (117)
Physics Colloquium
Start DateThu, Nov 07, 2019
3:45 PM
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3:45 PM
End DateThu, Nov 07, 2019
5:00 PM
5:00 PM
Physics Colloquium
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In this talk I will discuss recent developments in black hole physics that are at the frontier of gravity, quantum field theory and quantum information. In particular I will discuss how thermal properties of black holes arise from energy eigenstates of the gravitational field in a manner similar to what happens in other isolated many-body quantum systems. I will also highlight how the observation of the statistical distribution of the spin of primordial black holes can provide the first observational test of black hole entropy.