Puzzles and pitfalls involving Haar-typicality in holography

Bao, Ning; Chatwin-Davies, Aidan

doi:10.21468/SciPostPhys.4.6.033

Title: Puzzles and pitfalls involving Haar-typicality in holography

Abstract

Holographic states that have a well-defined geometric dual in AdS/CFT are not faithfully represented by Haar-typical states in finite-dimensional models. As such, trying to apply principles and lessons from Haar-random ensembles of states to holographic states can lead to apparent puzzles and contradictions. We point out a handful of these pitfalls.

Authors:

Bao, Ning ^[1];

^[2]

California Institute of Technology, University of California, Berkeley
California Institute of Technology

Publication Date:: 2018-06-19

Research Org.:: California Institute of Technology (CalTech), Pasadena, CA (United States)

Sponsoring Org.:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP); National Science Foundation (NSF); Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation

OSTI Identifier:: 1454886

Alternate Identifier(s):: OSTI ID: 1597657

Grant/Contract Number:: SC0011632; PHY-1125565; GBMF-12500028; 776

Resource Type:: Published Article

Journal Name:: SciPost Physics Proceedings

Additional Journal Information:: Journal Name: SciPost Physics Proceedings Journal Volume: 4 Journal Issue: 6; Journal ID: ISSN 2542-4653

Publisher:: SciPost Foundation

Country of Publication:: Netherlands

Language:: English

Subject:: 71 CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS; AdS/CFT correspondence; Haar typicality; Holography

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  abstractNote = {Holographic states that have a well-defined geometric dual in AdS/CFT are not faithfully represented by Haar-typical states in finite-dimensional models. As such, trying to apply principles and lessons from Haar-random ensembles of states to holographic states can lead to apparent puzzles and contradictions. We point out a handful of these pitfalls.},

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The stretched horizon and black hole complementarity
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journal, April 2018

Black holes and the butterfly effect
journal, March 2014

Entanglement in Quantum Spin Chains, Symmetry Classes of Random Matrices, and Conformal Field Theory
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Entanglement in Quantum Critical Phenomena
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Holographic Derivation of Entanglement Entropy from the anti–de Sitter Space/Conformal Field Theory Correspondence
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Bulk locality and quantum error correction in AdS/CFT
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