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Title: Replica wormhole and information retrieval in the SYK model coupled to Majorana chains

Journal Article · · Journal of High Energy Physics (Online)
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  1. Princeton Univ., NJ (United States)
  2. Stanford Univ., CA (United States). Stanford Inst. for Theoretical Physics and Dept. of Physics
  3. California Institute of Technology (CalTech), Pasadena, CA (United States). Walter Burke Inst. for Theoretical Physics and Inst. for Quantum Information and Matter

Motivated by recent studies of the information paradox in (1+1)-D anti-de Sitter spacetime with a bath described by a (1+1)-D conformal field theory, we study the dynamics of second Ŕenyi entropy of the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) model (χ) coupled to a Majorana chain bath (ψ). The system is prepared in the thermofield double (TFD) state and then evolved by HL + HR. For small system-bath coupling, we find that the second Rényi entropy $$S^(2)_{χL,χR}$$ of the SYK model undergoes a first order transition during the evolution. In the sense of holographic duality, the long-time solution corresponds to a “replica wormhole”. The transition time corresponds to the Page time of a black hole coupled to a thermal bath. We further study the information scrambling and retrieval by introducing a classical control bit, which controls whether or not we add a perturbation in the SYK system. The mutual information between the bath and the control bit shows a positive jump at the Page time, indicating that the entanglement wedge of the bath includes an island in the holographic bulk.

Research Organization:
Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP); National Science Foundation (NSF); Simons Foundation
Grant/Contract Number:
SC0019380; 1720504
OSTI ID:
1646615
Journal Information:
Journal of High Energy Physics (Online), Vol. 2020, Issue 6; ISSN 1029-8479
Publisher:
Springer NatureCopyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
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Cited by: 41 works
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