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Fast Scramblers, Horizons and Expander Graphs

High Energy Physics - Theory 2015-06-04 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology Quantum Physics

Abstract

We propose that local quantum systems defined on expander graphs provide a simple microscopic model for thermalization on quantum horizons. Such systems are automatically fast scramblers and are motivated from the membrane paradigm by a conformal transformation to the so-called optical metric.

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@article{arxiv.1204.6435,
  title  = {Fast Scramblers, Horizons and Expander Graphs},
  author = {Jose L. F. Barbon and Javier M. Magan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1204.6435},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

22 pages, 2 figures. Added further discussion in section 3. Added references

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