Collisions of localized shocks and quantum circuits
Abstract
We study collisions between localized shockwaves inside a black hole interior. We give a holographic boundary description of this process in terms of the overlap of two growing perturbations in a shared quantum circuit. The perturbations grow both exponentially as well as ballistically. Due to a competition between different physical effects, the circuit analysis shows dependence on the transverse locations and exhibits four regimes of qualitatively different behaviors. On the gravity side we study properties of the post-collision geometry, using exact calculations in simple setups and estimations in more general circumstances. We show that the circuit analysis offers intuitive and surprisingly accurate predictions about gravity computations involving non-linear features of general relativity.
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@article{arxiv.2202.04661,
title = {Collisions of localized shocks and quantum circuits},
author = {Felix M. Haehl and Ying Zhao},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2202.04661},
year = {2022}
}
Comments
v1: 26+11 pages, 17 figures; v2: published version in JHEP