Year: 2024
Type: article
Abstract: A bstract 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.
Source: Journal of High Energy Physics
Institutions: Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati, Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe, RIKEN, RIKEN Center for Interdisciplinary Theoretical and Mathematical Sciences, The University of Tokyo
Language: English
Subfield: Nuclear and High Energy Physics
Field: Physics and Astronomy
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
Awards: G1286236842, G1523888516, G3083819904, G32078080, G3310577945, G3826262035, G419881185, G42916606, G4501827968, G4680069798, G498139845, G5217172575, G543303420, G5797551721, G6111266104, G6300665489, THE GEOMETRY AND FLOW OF QUANTUM INFORMATION: FROM QUANTUM GRAVITY TO QUANTUM TECHNOLOGY, G638836682, G6652958823, G6902702339, G759921648, G7866295892, THE GEOMETRY AND FLOW OF QUANTUM INFORMATION: FROM QUANTUM GRAVITY TO QUANTUM TECHNOLOGY, Non-perturbative dynamics of quantum fields: from new deconfined phases of matter to quantum black holes, G969889393
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