Quantum Information Theory and Complexity in Gravity

Presentations

• Thermality isn't boring

  ORAL · Invited

  March 18, 2026, 3:30 PM – March 18, 2026, 4:06 PM

  Publication: https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.21441 Thermal reconstruction of chaotic quantum many-body systems
  https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.26758 Approximate quantum error correction, eigenstate thermalization and the chaos bound

  Presenters

  • Jason Pollack

    • Syracuse University

  Authors

  • Jason Pollack

    • Syracuse University

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• Is gravity magical?

  ORAL · Invited

  March 18, 2026, 4:06 PM – March 18, 2026, 4:42 PM

  Presenters

  • ChunJun (Charles) Cao

    • Virginia Tech

  Authors

  • ChunJun (Charles) Cao

    • Virginia Tech

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• Decoherence due to Thermal Gravitons: from Cosmological Horizons to Qubits in Hardware

  ORAL · Invited

  March 18, 2026, 4:42 PM – March 18, 2026, 5:18 PM

  Publication: N. Bao, A. Chatwin-Davies, J. Pollack, G. N. Remmen. (2020). Cosmological decoherence from thermal gravitons. JHEP 2020:65, [arXiv:1911.10207].

  Presenters

  • Aidan É Chatwin-Davies

    • University of Rhode Island

  Authors

  • Aidan É Chatwin-Davies

    • University of Rhode Island

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• A vacuum density matrix for asymptotically flat gravity

  ORAL · Invited

  March 18, 2026, 5:18 PM – March 18, 2026, 5:54 PM

  Publication: hep-th/2509.13401

  Presenters

  • Temple He

    • California Institute of Technology

  Authors

  • Temple He

    • California Institute of Technology

  • Prahar Mitra

    • University of Amsterdam

  • Kathryn Zurek

    • California Institute of Technology

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