Akers

Affiliations

• Fellow of CTQM
• Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, University of Colorado Boulder

Bio

I am interested in combining quantum mechanics and gravity, especially by thinking about quantum mechanical aspects of black holes and the AdS/CFT correspondence (our best theory of quantum gravity so far).

To this end, I often use the tools of quantum information theory and quantum computation, and I am interested in expanding these connections. How can quantum computers be used to help the study of quantum gravity? In what ways does quantum gravitational physics affect the theory of computation?