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Information recovery in the Hayden-Preskill protocol

High Energy Physics - Theory 2023-10-27 v1

Abstract

We revisit information retrieval from evaporating black holes in the Hayden-Preskill protocol, treating the black hole dynamics as Haar-random. We compute, down to the first exponentially suppressed terms, all integer-indexed R\'enyi mutual informations between a black hole, its radiation, and a reference that catalogues Alice's diaries. We find that dropping a diary into a young black hole effectively delays the Page time. We also compute the radiation : diary reflected R\'enyi entropies, and identify a technical reason why they cannot be continued to the reflected entropy by the replica trick.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2310.16988,
  title  = {Information recovery in the Hayden-Preskill protocol},
  author = {Bartlomiej Czech and Sirui Shuai and Haifeng Tang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2310.16988},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

24 pages plus appendices

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