Firewalls at exponentially late times

Journal Article · 17 October 2024 · Journal of High Energy Physics (Online)

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/jhep10(2024)131 · OSTI ID:2479292

Blommaert, Andreas ^[1]; Chen, Chang-Han ^[2]; Nomura, Yasunori  ^[3]

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1. International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA), Trieste (Italy); Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN), Trieste (Italy)
2. University of California, Berkeley, CA (United States); Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
3. University of California, Berkeley, CA (United States); Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States); Inst. of Physical and Chemical Research (RIKEN), Wako (Japan); Univ. of Tokyo, Kashiwa (Japan)

We consider a version of the typical state firewall setup recently reintroduced by Stanford and Yang, who found that wormholes may create firewalls. We examine a late-time scaling limit in JT gravity in which one can resum the expansion in the number of wormholes, and we use this to study the exact distribution of interior slices at times exponential in the entropy. We consider a thermofield double with and without early perturbations on a boundary. These perturbations can appear on interior slices as dangerous high energy shockwaves. For exponentially late times, wormholes tend to teleport the particles created by perturbations and render the interior more dangerous. In states with many perturbations separated by large times, the probability of a safe interior is exponentially small, even though these would be safe without wormholes. With perturbation, even in the safest state we conceive, the odds of encountering a shock are fifty-fifty. One interpretation of the phenomenon is that wormholes can change time-ordered contours into effective out-of-time-ordered folds, making shockwaves appear in unexpected places.

• Research Organization: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP); US Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR); European Research Council (ERC); Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT)
• Grant/Contract Number: AC02-05CH11231; SC0019380
• OSTI ID: 2479292
• Journal Information: Journal of High Energy Physics (Online), Journal Name: Journal of High Energy Physics (Online) Journal Issue: 10 Vol. 2024; ISSN 1029-8479
• Publisher: Springer NatureCopyright Statement
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English