INFORMATION, INFORMATION PROCESSING AND GRAVITY

DOI10.1142/S0217751X07036853MaRDI QIDQ3504053zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Stephen D. H. Hsu

Publication date 11 June 2008

Published in International Journal of Modern Physics A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0704.1154

zbMATH Keywords

gravityinformationinformation processingminimum lengthquantum information

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum computation (81P68) General relativity (83C99)

Abstract: I discuss fundamental limits placed on information and information processing by gravity. Such limits arise because both information and its processing require energy, while gravitational collapse (formation of a horizon or black hole) restricts the amount of energy allowed in a finite region. Specifically, I use a criterion for gravitational collapse called the hoop conjecture. Once the hoop conjecture is assumed a number of results can be obtained directly: the existence of a fundamental uncertainty in spatial distance of order the Planck length, bounds on information (entropy) in a finite region, and a bound on the rate of information processing in a finite region. In the final section I discuss some cosmological issues related to the total amount of information in the universe, and note that almost all detailed aspects of the late universe are determined by the randomness of quantum outcomes. This paper is based on a talk presented at a 2007 Bellairs Research Institute (McGill University) workshop on black holes and quantum information.

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