Page curve

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The predicted path of the evolution of the von Neumann entropy of a black hole undergoing Hawking radiation through its lifetime, where the Hawking radiation radiates away the quantum information stored within the black hole, to avoid violating the Law of Conservation of Quantum Information.

Word forms

Page curve Page curves

Etymology

From being a curve on a graph derived by physicist Don Page.

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