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Aspen Center for Physics: Black Holes and Quantum Teleportation with Douglas Stanford

This event was recorded on August 24, 2022 at Aspen Center for Physics during the 2022 Heinz R. Pagels Physics Talks, in partnership with Aspen Public Radio.

Black holes are incredibly powerful objects, but high-energy theoretical physicists are interested in them for a different reason — because we believe that they are ordinary quantum systems in disguise. This idea has driven progress in theoretical physics for decades, and has accelerated in the last few years.

In this talk, Dr. Douglas Stanford shares more about how black holes carry out a basic protocol of quantum computation by teleporting information through a wormhole. This is similar to a quantum information theoretic protocol called "quantum teleportation," but it is implemented in a geometrical way that allows us to make sense of the experience of being teleported.

Douglas Stanford is an Associate Professor at Stanford University. He works on quantum gravity and its connection to quantum mechanics, mostly in the context of black hole physics.

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