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Holographic Schwinger Effect and the Geometry of Entanglement

High Energy Physics - Theory 2013-12-24 v3

Abstract

In this note we point out that the recently proposed bulk dual of an entangled pair of a quark and an anti-quark corresponds to the Lorentzian continuation of the tunneling instanton describing Schwinger pair creation in the dual field theory. This observation supports and further explains the claim by Jensen & Karch that the bulk dual of an EPR pair is a string with a wormhole on its world sheet. We suggest that this constitutes an AdS/CFT realization of the creation of a Wheeler wormhole.

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@article{arxiv.1307.6850,
  title  = {Holographic Schwinger Effect and the Geometry of Entanglement},
  author = {Julian Sonner},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1307.6850},
  year   = {2013}
}

Comments

4 pages, 2 figures; version as published in journal; title change to conform with APS conventions; clarifications added, references updated