Islands in cosmology
Abstract
A quantum extremal island suggests that a region of spacetime is encoded in the quantum state of another system, like the encoding of the black hole interior in Hawking radiation. We study conditions for islands to appear in general spacetimes, with or without black holes. They must violate Bekenstein’s area bound in a precise sense, and the boundary of an island must satisfy several other information-theoretic inequalities. These conditions combine to impose very strong restrictions, which we apply to cosmological models. We find several examples of islands in crunching universes. In particular, in the four-dimensional FRW cosmology with radiation and a negative cosmological constant, there is an island near the turning point when the geometry begins to recollapse. In a two-dimensional model of JT gravity in de Sitter spacetime, there are islands inside crunches that are encoded at future infinity or inside bubbles of Minkowski spacetime. Finally, we discuss simple tensor network toy models for islands in cosmology and black holes.
- Authors:
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- Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY (United States)
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC); Simons Foundation
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1853625
- Grant/Contract Number:
- SC0020397
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Journal of High Energy Physics (Online)
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Name: Journal of High Energy Physics (Online); Journal Volume: 2020; Journal Issue: 11; Journal ID: ISSN 1029-8479
- Publisher:
- Springer Nature
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 79 ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS; AdS-CFT; correspondence; black holes
Citation Formats
Hartman, Thomas, Jiang, Yikun, and Shaghoulian, Edgar. Islands in cosmology. United States: N. p., 2020.
Web. doi:10.1007/jhep11(2020)111.
Hartman, Thomas, Jiang, Yikun, & Shaghoulian, Edgar. Islands in cosmology. United States. https://doi.org/10.1007/jhep11(2020)111
Hartman, Thomas, Jiang, Yikun, and Shaghoulian, Edgar. Fri .
"Islands in cosmology". United States. https://doi.org/10.1007/jhep11(2020)111. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1853625.
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title = {Islands in cosmology},
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abstractNote = {A quantum extremal island suggests that a region of spacetime is encoded in the quantum state of another system, like the encoding of the black hole interior in Hawking radiation. We study conditions for islands to appear in general spacetimes, with or without black holes. They must violate Bekenstein’s area bound in a precise sense, and the boundary of an island must satisfy several other information-theoretic inequalities. These conditions combine to impose very strong restrictions, which we apply to cosmological models. We find several examples of islands in crunching universes. In particular, in the four-dimensional FRW cosmology with radiation and a negative cosmological constant, there is an island near the turning point when the geometry begins to recollapse. In a two-dimensional model of JT gravity in de Sitter spacetime, there are islands inside crunches that are encoded at future infinity or inside bubbles of Minkowski spacetime. Finally, we discuss simple tensor network toy models for islands in cosmology and black holes.},
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year = {Fri Nov 20 00:00:00 EST 2020},
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