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David Wakeham

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17Publications signalées
658Citations signalées
1Affiliations récentes

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Noncommutative and Quantum Gravity TheoriesBlack Holes and Theoretical PhysicsCosmology and Gravitation TheoriesQuantum Computing Algorithms and ArchitectureQuantum Information and Cryptography

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Accès ouvert 2026 preprint OpenAlex

Relativity from Relative Entropy

David Wakeham

Spurred by Einstein's appendix to \emph{The Meaning of Relativity}, we embark on an algebraic voyage from von Neumann algebras to the emergence of special relativity from algebraic structure. We identify time with modular flow (in line with Connes and Rovelli's Thermal Time …

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0 citations Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Accès ouvert 2026 preprint OpenAlex

Relativity from Relative Entropy

David Wakeham

Spurred by Einstein's appendix to \emph{The Meaning of Relativity}, we embark on an algebraic voyage from von Neumann algebras to the emergence of special relativity from algebraic structure. We identify time with modular flow (in line with Connes and Rovelli's Thermal Time …

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0 citations Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Accès ouvert 2025 preprint OpenAlex

The Structure and Interpretation of Quantum Programs I: Foundations

David Wakeham

Qubits are a great way to build a quantum computer, but a limited way to program one. We replace the usual "states and gates" formalism with a "props and ops" (propositions and operators) model in which (a) the C*-algebra of observables supplies …

0 citations arXiv (Cornell University)
Accès ouvert 2025 article OpenAlex

Early Fault-Tolerant Quantum Algorithms in Practice: Application to Ground-State Energy Estimation

Oriel Kiss, Utkarsh Azad, Borja Requena, Alessandro Roggero et autres

We investigate the feasibility of early fault-tolerant quantum algorithms focusing on ground-state energy estimation problems. In particular, we examine the computation of the cumulative distribution function (CDF) of the spectral measure of a Hamiltonian and the identification of its discontinuities. Scaling these …

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10 citations Quantum
Accès ouvert 2025 preprint OpenAlex

A Short History of Rocks: or, How to Invent Quantum Computing

David Wakeham

This essay gives a short, informal account of the development of digital logic from the Pleistocene to the Manhattan Project, the introduction of reversible circuits, and Richard Feynman's allied proposal for quantum computing. We argue that Feynman's state-based analogy is not the …

0 citations arXiv (Cornell University)
Accès ouvert 2024 preprint OpenAlex

Early Fault-Tolerant Quantum Algorithms in Practice: Application to Ground-State Energy Estimation

Oriel Kiss, Utkarsh Azad, Borja Requena, Alessandro Roggero et autres

We investigate the feasibility of early fault-tolerant quantum algorithms focusing on ground-state energy estimation problems. In particular, we examine the computation of the cumulative distribution function (CDF) of the spectral measure of a Hamiltonian and the identification of its discontinuities. Scaling these …

1 citation arXiv (Cornell University)
Accès ouvert 2021 article OpenAlex

Looking for (and not finding) a bulk brane

Wyatt Reeves, Moshe Rozali, Petar Simidzija, James Sully et autres

Abstract When does a holographic CFT with a boundary added to it (a BCFT) also have a ‘good’ holographic dual with a localized gravitating end-of-the-world brane? We argue that the answer to this question is almost never. By studying Lorentzian BCFT correlators, …

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0 citations Journal of High Energy Physics
Accès ouvert 2021 article OpenAlex

Microstate distinguishability, quantum complexity, and the eigenstate thermalization hypothesis

Ning Bao, Jason Pollack, David Wakeham, Elizabeth Wildenhain

Abstract In this work, we use quantum complexity theory to quantify the difficulty of distinguishing eigenstates obeying the eigenstate thermalization hypothesis (ETH). After identifying simple operators with an algebra of low-energy observables and tracing out the complementary high-energy Hilbert space, the ETH …

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5 citations Classical and Quantum Gravity
Accès ouvert 2021 article OpenAlex

Quantum tasks require islands on the brane

Alex May, David Wakeham

Abstract In recent work, it was argued that quantum computations with inputs and outputs distributed in spacetime, or quantum tasks, impose constraints on entanglement in holographic theories. The resulting constraint was named the connected wedge theorem and can be verified by a …

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19 citations Classical and Quantum Gravity
Accès ouvert 2021 article OpenAlex

BCFT entanglement entropy at large central charge and the black hole interior

James Sully, Mark Van Raamsdonk, David Wakeham

Abstract In this note, we consider entanglement and Renyi entropies for spatial subsystems of a boundary conformal field theory (BCFT) or of a CFT in a state constructed using a Euclidean BCFT path integral. Holographic calculations suggest that these entropies undergo phase …

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127 citations Journal of High Energy Physics
Accès ouvert 2020 preprint OpenAlex

Why is a soap bubble like a railway?

David Wakeham

At a certain infamous tea party, the Mad Hatter posed the following riddle: why is a raven like a writing-desk? We do not answer this question. Instead, we solve a related nonsense query: why is a soap bubble like a railway? The …

0 citations arXiv (Cornell University)

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