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Page curve

Page curve noun: 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.

Noun

Page curve (plural Page curves)

  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.

Forms of Page curve

pluralPage curves

Origin of Page curve

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

Questions about Page curve

What does Page curve mean?
Page curve means 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.
What part of speech is Page curve?
Page curve is a noun.
What is the plural of Page curve?
The plural of Page curve is Page curves.

Words near Page curve in the dictionary

  1. page boy
  2. page boys
  3. page break
  4. page breaks
  5. Page County
  6. Page curve
  7. Page curves
  8. page down
  9. Page Downs
  10. page extent
  11. page fault

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Page curve (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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