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Akers, Christopher

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  • I am interested in combining quantum mechanics and gravity, especially by thinking about quantum mechanical aspects of black holes and the AdS/CFT correspondence (our best theory of quantum gravity so far). To this end, I often use the tools of quantum information theory and quantum computation, and I am interested in expanding these connections. How can quantum computers be used to help the study of quantum gravity? In what ways does quantum gravitational physics affect the theory of computation?

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