8.821 | Fall 2014 | Graduate

String Theory and Holographic Duality

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Lecture 4: Physical Interpretation of Black Hole Temperature

Description: In this lecture, Prof. Liu gives a physical interpretation of the black hole temperature, and similarly the temperature experienced by an accelerated observer in Minkowski spacetime, in terms of entanglement of the vacuum state of a quantum field theory in these spacetimes.

Instructor: Hong Liu

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