8.821 | Fall 2014 | Graduate

String Theory and Holographic Duality

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Lecture 24: Holographic Entanglement Entropy

Description: In this lecture, Prof. Liu discusses how to calculate the entanglement entropy of a boundary system using the AdS gravity. He gives a holographic proof of the strong Sub-additivity conditions of the entanglement entropy, and discusses a simple example.

Instructor: Hong Liu

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