Is Information Scrambling Unique to Black Hole?

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A, i was building a lab or i have ways of letting adams talk to each other with light. I but was interested in whether one can do experiments that would probe im a phenomenon known as information scrambling. A, which is sort of trying to get at what happens to information that falls into a black hole. And did you ever expect when you started doing this kind of thing that you would be modelling quantum gravity? Ah, no. And apparently that is what is going on.

When it comes to thinking about quantum mechanics, there are levels. One level is shut-up-and-calculate: find a wave function, square it to get a probability. One level is foundational: dig deeply into the underlying ontology. But there’s a level in between, long neglected but recently coming to life. In this level you think about — or do experiments with — entangled quantum systems in the real world, putting entanglement to use. Monika Schleier-Smith is an experimental physicist specializing in cold atoms, which can be both entangled and manipulated. We discuss how to use such systems to study everything from metrology to quantum gravity.

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Monika Schleier-Smith received her Ph.D. in physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She is currently an Associate Professor of Physics at Stanford University. Among her awards are a MacArthur Fellowship, a Sloan Fellowship, and the I. I. Rabi Prize in Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics from the American Physical Society.

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