2014/02/15 by Rafael D. Sorkin · 2 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #gr-qc #cond-mat.stat-mech #hep-th #quant-ph
published as Tenth International Conference on General Relativity and Gravitation (held Padova, 4-9 July, 1983), Contributed Papers, vol. II, pp. 734-736 · This is a verbatim copy of a paper published originally in 1983, before the existence of "arXiv". Also available at http://www.pitp.ca/personal/rsorkin/some.papers/31.padova.entropy.pdf
arxiv created 2014/02/15 · arxiv updated 2014/02/18
I introduce the concept of *entanglement entropy* (as it's now called) and point out that it follows an *area law* which renders it a suitable source of black hole entropy. I also suggest to conceive the latter as residing on the horizon at approximately one bit per "Planckian plaquette".