nLab Ahmed Almheiri

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Selected writings

On the black hole firewall problem:

• Ahmed Almheiri, Donald Marolf, Joseph Polchinski, James Sully, Black holes: complementarity or firewalls? [arXiv:1207.3123]

On the interpretation of tensor networks encoding holographic entanglement entropy as quantum error correcting codes:

• Ahmed Almheiri, Xi Dong, Daniel Harlow, Bulk Locality and Quantum Error Correction in AdS/CFT, JHEP 1504:163,2015 (arXiv:1411.7041)

• Ahmed Almheiri, Holographic Quantum Error Correction and the Projected Black Hole Interior (arXiv:1810.02055)

On AdS/CFT-duality for $AdS_2/CFT_1$ via Jackiw-Teitelboim gravity:

• Ahmed Almheiri, Joseph Polchinski, Models of $AdS_2$ Backreaction and Holography, J. High Energ. Phys. 2015 14 (2015) [doi:10.1007/JHEP11(2015)014, arXiv:1402.6334]

Claim that the proper application of holographic entanglement entropy to the discussion of Bekenstein-Hawking entropy resolves the apparent black hole information paradox:

• Ahmed Almheiri, Thomas Hartman, Juan Maldacena, Edgar Shaghoulian, Amirhossein Tajdini, Replica Wormholes and the Entropy of Hawking Radiation, J. High Energ. Phys. 2020 13 (2020) [arXiv:1911.12333]

Review:

• Ahmed Almheiri, Thomas Hartman, Juan Maldacena, Edgar Shaghoulian, Amirhossein Tajdini, The entropy of Hawking radiation, Rev. Mod. Phys. 93 35002 (2021) [arXiv:2006.06872, doi:10.1103/RevModPhys.93.035002]

Popular exposition of black holes and Hawking radiation:

• Ahmed Almheiri: Exposing the Secrets of Black Holes, NYUAD Research Institute (Nov 2023) [video:YT]

Activity

The case for a Kavli-like theoretical physics institute in Abu Dhabi, UAE:

• with David Gross: Majlis Mohamed bin Zayed lecture: “The Future of Scientific Research”, Abu Dhabi (Jan 2023) [video: TW, YT]

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