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Causality As Well As Cloning Past Times Dark Holes

On his as well as his junior colleagues' blog, John Preskill describes a recent Stanford workshop where dark hole data puzzle big shots met alongside quantum data folks:
Here’s i mode to go out of a dark hole!
If a dark hole wants to hire you, I recommend yous to process the pledge inward a higher house every bit oversimplified hype inward companionship to avoid a bad career move. ;-)

We're promised that Maldacena, Stanford (coincidence, I hope: Leland Stanford alone had i son, Leland Jr), as well as Yang volition presently discover a newspaper that should survive related to the recent double-trace newspaper past times Gao, Jafferis, as well as Wall. Various people were trying to brand the wormholes inward ER=EPR traversable etc. One tin laissez passer on the sack "almost" acquire at that topographic point but something stops yous from fully completing the task.

H5N1 big potential paradox that is beingness addressed past times these thoughts is the cloning of data inward quantum mechanics – which, nether a for certain scenario as well as alongside a for certain interpretation, seems to materialize inward the presence of dark holes. Preskill talks close his as well as Patrick Hayden's paper that argued that after the Page time, the data tin laissez passer on the sack survive extracted from the radiations quickly, as well as he seems most excited past times the thought that a dark hole entangled alongside a quantum figurer is equivalent to a (short) wormhole.




Well, cloning is prohibited inward quantum mechanics. In classical physics, it's possible to conduct maintain some classical data – imagine a few bits inward the RAM retentivity of a classical figurer (although I am irritated how many people cry upwards that there's something special close the binary examples) – as well as re-create it. Just cry upwards what the command "A=B" is doing inward BASIC or whatever is your get-go figurer language. ;-)




The command "A=B" only takes the bits from the component of the retentivity reserved for the variable "B" as well as copies it to "A". Cloning similar that cannot survive done alongside total quantum, unmeasured qubits during a quantum calculation. Why? H5N1 qubit is described past times the Hilbert infinite alongside footing vectors \(\ket 0\) as well as \(\ket 1\). Is at that topographic point an functioning that would map the initial nation \(\ket\psi\) to \(\ket\psi\otimes \ket\psi\) describing ii copies of the same bit?

There's apparently none because the transformation is bilinear, non linear, but all operations inward quantum mechanics conduct maintain to survive described past times linear operators. Or, if yous wish, the mapping would conduct maintain to be\[

\ket 0 \to \ket 0\otimes \ket 0\\
\ket 1 \to \ket 1\otimes \ket 1\\
(\ket 0 + \ket 1) \to (\ket 0 + \ket 1) \otimes (\ket 0 + \ket 1)

\] for it to survive cloning. But the linearity implies, past times adding the get-go ii lines, that nosotros should have\[

(\ket 0 + \ket 1) \to (\ket 0\otimes \ket 0)+ (\ket 1\otimes \ket 1)

\] without whatsoever mixed terms. So the cloning functioning contradicts linearity. This elementary trial is known every bit the quantum xerox (or cloning) no-go theorem, or some other permutation of these roots as well as words.

In the presence of an evaporating dark hole, it seems that this paradox arises, however. Throw a qubit to a dark hole – past times a qubit, I literally hateful a slice of the retentivity of a quantum computer. This qubit may survive measured within the dark hole. But the dark hole eventually evaporates as well as the qubit may also survive measured past times a complicated measurement+calculation of all the Hawking radiations that resulted from the dissolution of the dark hole. So inward some sense, nosotros tin laissez passer on the sack mensurate the same qubit twice.

I personally cry upwards that i doesn't demand whatsoever fancy ER-EPR correspondence as well as non fifty-fifty dark hole complementarity to bargain alongside this would-be paradox. The ground is that the observer who measures the data within the dark hole has no run a peril to acquire exterior again. And escaping the dark hole would survive needed for him to mensurate the whole Hawking radiation. For this reason, it's totally possible for the observables within as well as exterior to conduct maintain nonzero commutators,\[

[L_{\rm inside}, M_{\rm radiation}] \neq 0

\] without whatsoever interference betwixt the ii measurements. There is only no observer who makes i of these measurements get-go to "collapse" his moving ridge component as well as who needs to predict the 2d measurement. If you're within the dark hole, yous can't e'er acquire exterior again. If you're exterior as well as capable of seeing all the dark hole radiation, the dark hole is gone so yous can't e'er acquire within it again. That's it.

Special complications may arise because for for certain purposes, the Hawking radiations from the "half-entropy-evaporated" dark hole is already sufficient for for certain purposes. This minute – the Page fourth dimension – when the initial dark hole entropy dropped to 1/2 is of import because the remaining dark hole is (almost) maximally entangled alongside the radiations that is already out.

I experience that many people – arguably including John Preskill – are insufficiently careful close the query whose observer's moving ridge component is beingness discussed. Some of them actually audio every bit if they were thinking – similar typical anti-quantum zealots – that the moving ridge component is some globally valid laid of classical degrees of freedom. Well, it's not. It's rattling important, specially inward these dark hole data puzzles, to appreciate that Bob (inside the dark hole) may survive Wigner's friend piece Alice (outside the dark hole) may actually survive Ms Alice Wigner (another sis of Eugene Wigner whom Wigner would donate to Paul Dirac every bit his wife, after Ms Margit Wigner). When it's so, Bob may take in the moving ridge component that he uses to collapse, but Alice doesn't, or vice versa.

The alone affair that is needed for consistency of the quantum mechanical painting is the consistency of the description from the viewpoint of i actual observer. Different observers' descriptions don't conduct maintain to survive the same or "consistent" – that's what Bohr's complementarity regulation is all about. The dark hole complementarity regulation is ultimately just a carefully applied Bohr's complementarity regulation within the causal diagram of a dark hole.



To what extent the ER bridges allow superluminal transfer

The ER-EPR correspondence tells yous to believe that wormholes may be but they must survive non-traversable. You may go far but yous can't acquire out. That's just similar dark holes. Einstein-Rosen yoke is such a non-traversable wormhole – unifying ii dark holes' interior into one. The ER-EPR correspondence tells yous that the ii observers who autumn within ii rattling distant, perfectly entangled dark holes may come across inside, earlier they are destroyed past times the singularity.

We must empathize the causal weather condition of a wormhole. We commonly pigment the Penrose diagram – as well as I did so many times inward the past, too. However, hither nosotros conduct maintain a simpler picture. Look at the low-cal cone above. The upper, hereafter low-cal cone looks similar a popcorn cone, doesn't it? So just the book where the popcorn sits, it's the dark hole interior from which yous tin laissez passer on the sack no longer escape again. The low-cal cone geometry makes it clear why yous can't acquire outside. You would demand to motion superluminally.

The root of the coordinates inward the low-cal cone painting is just a special betoken within the star, earlier it's completely clear that it has decided to collapse to a dark hole. This betoken already belongs to the dark hole interior fifty-fifty though yous can't forthwith take in anything special close it. Only if yous hold off for the dark hole to survive born as well as acquire stabilized, it is possible to build the precise place of the dark hole horizon. Only alongside hindsight, it becomes clear that the betoken at the root was special every bit the "seed" of Trump's Great Wall of Mexico, if yous wish. Just to survive sure, the singularity alone develops much later: the whole popcorn (truncated) cone is inward the past times of the singularity.

Also, the dark hole spacetime is heavily curved. So piece the circumference of the horizontal ("now") circles around the cone gets arbitrarily high on the low-cal cone painting above, the dark hole horizon gets stabilized as well as no longer grows, having the fixed proper expanse \(A\) for a rattling long time. But that shouldn't forbid yous from appreciating that the trial horizon is soundless a aught surface, just similar the low-cal cone inward the Minkowski spacetime that is pictured above.

Fine. Imagine that yous conduct maintain ii dark holes that are separated past times i meg low-cal years. So yous should cry upwards of ii rattling distant low-cal cones similar that. Assume that they fit to ii dark holes that are perfectly entangled. This status actually requires that the ii distant dark holes must conduct maintain been unopen (at least) 1 meg years agone as well as the entanglement distance was just gradually stretched to these proportions past times waiting.

The ER-EPR correspondence says that these ii dark holes percentage the interior. So if Alice as well as Bob – who are i meg low-cal years away from i some other – outpouring into their dark holes according to a pre-agreed algorithm, they may come across i time again for a while, earlier they die. (Yes, folks at Hollywood, I cry upwards it is a proficient thought for a movie. I gauge that the ii people dearest each other so much that both of them create upwards one's withdraw heed to brand the irreversible determination to meet.)

Doesn't this liberty to come across violate some bans past times special relativity? It doesn't. The funny affair is that the trial horizon is a border crossing alongside some item rules. Before yous cross it – when yous go inward the hereafter low-cal cone on the painting from the exterior – yous conduct maintain to sign this item document:
I, Ms Alice Wigner, conduct maintain freely decided to locomote to the dark hole or wormhole interior. I realize that my trip dorsum could violate the U.S. of A. laws as well as the laws of Nature as well as I thus pledge to conk within as well as never acquire exterior again.
Well, fifty-fifty if she doesn't hope the border patrol to conk inside, she volition conk inside, anyway. Nature's constabulary enforcement forces brand for certain that she does. While her contribution to the volume may acquire "recycled", I cry upwards that when it comes to her perspective every bit an observer, it's destroyed past times the singularity as well as cannot survive "continued" through the radiations – inward this sense, the classical causal diagram should survive trusted literally. But yous may soundless survive worried: When Alice as well as Bob speak to each other within the wormhole, earlier they die, they may larn close some events that took house i meg low-cal years away from the house where they jumped to the dark hole or wormhole (the distance is measured exterior the wormhole – the wormhole is a shortcut that could allow yous to say that the distance was smaller, too).

How does the spacetime around Alice's trial horizon larn close the events that took house inward Bob's galaxy during the recent i meg years?

Well, the trial horizon can't survive just an innocent border crossing. It must survive a item i correlated alongside its distant cousin. Outside the trial horizons, the degrees of liberty may hold off similar land operators \(\Phi(x,y,z,t)\) that perfectly commute betwixt Alice's as well as Bob's regions. The carve upwards dark holes may survive assumed to survive described past times the \(N\)-dimensional Hilbert spaces of microstates. H5N1 priori, the ii dark holes may survive independent as well as non entangled, so the Hilbert infinite is the tensor production \(\HH\otimes \HH\) of ii copies of the dark hole Hilbert space. Its dimension is \(N^2\).

The land operators \(\Phi(x,y,z,t)\) inward Alice's part are basically \(N\times N\) matrices acting on her \(\HH\), as well as similarly for Bob. However, the dark holes are maximally entangled, inward the state\[

\ket{ER} = \frac{1}{\sqrt N} \sum_{i=1}^N \ket i \otimes \ket i.

\] The construction of this nation is equivalent to the "unit operator" mapping Alice's re-create of \(\HH\) to Bob's \(\HH\) or vice versa. However, operators should survive linear inward i ket-vector infinite as well as i bra-vector space. Here, nosotros conduct maintain ii kets (or ii bras, if yous hold off from the contrary side). So it's non a regular unit of measurement operator. Instead, it is an operator mapping the ket infinite to the bra space: an antilinear operator \(J_{ER}:\HH_{A,\rm ket}\to \HH_{B,\rm bra}\).

I desire to fence that the ii trial horizons are highly connected aught surfaces that permute some extremely high-energy, short-distance degrees of liberty but are invisible to the low-energy degrees of freedom. When Alice (or Bob) crosses it, the permutation forces her (or him) to connect the Hermitian-like land operators \(L_{\rm Alice}\) that alone human activity on the \(\HH_{\rm Alice}\) ingredient (or similarly for Bob) past times the "diagonal operators\[

L_{ER} = L_{\rm Alice} \otimes {\bf 1} + {\bf 1} \otimes L^\dagger_{\rm Bob}

\] which is shared past times both people. If yous translate \(L_{\rm Alice}\) to survive a generator of \(U(N)\), the unitary grouping mixing the Hilbert infinite of her dark hole's microstates, as well as then the human face inward a higher house is only how the same generator acts on the representation\[

({\bf N}, \overline{\bf N}).

\] Assuming the entanglement, the ii dark holes' Hilbert infinite is only interpreted every bit the "fundamental tensor times antifundamental" representation.

It's irresistable to fence that the operators similar \(L_{ER}\) are to a greater extent than physically natural than the master copy ones i time Alice (and Bob) are going to probe the degrees of liberty that exercise depend on the precise microstate – as well as the land operators within the dark holes do. Why? It's because these operators commute alongside the "antilinear unit of measurement operator" that maps the ii Hilbert spaces. And because Alice as well as Bob – earlier they jumped to their dark holes – knew that the ii dark holes were connected, they could basically figure out that the ii dark holes are invariant nether an operator of the cast \(J_{ER}\).

And the most of import low-energy degrees of liberty are those observables that conduct maintain vanishing or pocket-size commutators alongside the previously measured observables. In particular, for an operator, "low-energy" agency having a "small commutator alongside the Hamiltonian". The entangled nation of the ii dark holes is a singlet nether \(U(N)\) – the diagonal grouping every bit explained inward a higher house – so it is invariant nether all the diagonal \(U(N)\) transformations as well as the measurements done within the ER yoke should conduct maintain this property.

It would survive prissy to conduct maintain some to a greater extent than "unavoidable" explanation why Alice's as well as Bob's land operators "have to be" continued to the shared, "diagonal" ones as well as take in how it plant inward some controllable examples of quantum dark holes. I am imagining the dark hole trial horizon every bit something that may "permute all the points on it" – a domain wall moving past times the speed of low-cal that does so. Some "projection of a fuzzball" or something similar that could survive the "local" description of a generic microstate's horizon. There could survive other descriptions, too.

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