Quantum Magic Identified as Source of Space-Time Curvature in Holographic Models

Recent holographic constructions show that a quantum resource termed magic supplies the curvature response missing from prior entanglement-only accounts of emergent geometry, as detailed in the 2024 Quanta report on Cao et al. (https://www.quantamagazine.org/entanglement-builds-space-time-now-magic-gives-it-gravity-20260603/). Maldacena's 1998 AdS/CFT correspondence first mapped black-hole microstates to boundary quantum particles, establishing entanglement as the builder of connectivity (Adv. Theor. Math. Phys. 2, 231). Subsequent calculations isolate magic—non-stabilizerness measured by mana or robustness—as the operator that deforms the bulk metric under matter stress-energy.