Wormholes and entangled states

Anonymous

Nilakash Sorokhaibam

We show that strong quantum entanglement can support a stable traversable wormhole without any explicit interaction or tunnelling term between the two boundary theories of the wormhole. Specifically we work with two complex SYK models. The entangled state is prepared using a tunnelling term in imaginary time but the tunnelling term is removed from the time evolution operator so the two complex SYK models are not coupled. Low temperature states show revival dynamics which is the hallmark of a traversable wormhole geometry. To send any meaningful information from one system to the other, one only needs to turn on a very small interaction term. The technique that we are employing can be applied to other systems to study aspects of quantum entanglement.

Mario S. Reis

Felix M. Haehl, Ying Zhao

Two distant black holes can be connected in the interior through a wormhole. Such a wormhole has been interpreted as an entangled state shared between two exterior regions. If Alice and Bob send signals into each of the black holes, then they can meet in the interior. In this paper, we interpret this meeting in terms of the quantum circuit that prepares the entangled state: Alice and Bob sending signals creates growing perturbations in the circuit, whose overlap represents their meeting inside the wormhole. We argue that such overlap in the circuit is quantified by a particular six-point correlation function. Therefore, exterior observers in possession of the entangled qubits can use this correlation function to diagnose the collision in the interior without having to jump in themselves.

Bipin R. Desai

Jeff Greensite