Speaker
Prof.
Charles Cao
Description
Rather than seeking to quantize gravity, we explore how classical structures such as spacetime geometry and Einstein gravity can emerge from complex quantum systems. Guided by quantum error-correcting codes and the AdS/CFT correspondence, we show that while entanglement provides the scaffold for emergent geometry, an orthogonal resource—quantum magic—is essential for recovering gravitational features. We then present strategies and results that extend beyond anti-de Sitter space by leveraging the structure of general quantum codes. In particular, we highlight how the interplay between entanglement and magic in these codes can reproduce phenomena analogous to gravity and outline some open questions within this approach.
