Black holes, information and decoherence
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
2009-07-09 v2 High Energy Physics - Theory
Quantum Physics
Abstract
We investigate the experimental capabilities required to test whether black holes destroy information. We show that an experiment capable of illuminating the information puzzle must necessarily be able to detect or manipulate macroscopic superpositions (i.e., Everett branches). Hence, it could also address the fundamental question of decoherence versus wavefunction collapse.
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@article{arxiv.0903.2258,
title = {Black holes, information and decoherence},
author = {Stephen D. H. Hsu and David Reeb},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0903.2258},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
7 pages, revtex; v2: added discussion of laboratory decoherence experiments, minor changes, final version to be published in Phys. Rev. D