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Information Scrambling at Quantum Hall Interfaces and Their Analog to Black Hole Event Horizon

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2024-08-02 v1 Strongly Correlated Electrons General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

The black hole information paradox has been hotly debated for the last few decades without a full resolution. This makes it desirable to find analogues of this paradox in simple and experimentally accessible systems, whose resolutions may shed light on this longstanding and fundamental problem. Here, we review and resolve the apparent "information paradox" in two different interfaces separating Abelian and non-Abelian quantum Hall states. In both cases, the information carried by the pseudospin degree of freedom of the Abelian anyons get scrambled when they cross the interface and enter the non-Abelian quantum Hall liquid. Nevertheless, it is found that the scrambling mechanism depends on the nature of the interface. The corresponding analogues of different concepts in black hole physics such as event horizon, black hole interior, Hawking radiation, and Page curve will also be discussed.

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@article{arxiv.2408.00058,
  title  = {Information Scrambling at Quantum Hall Interfaces and Their Analog to Black Hole Event Horizon},
  author = {Ken K. W. Ma and Kun Yang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2408.00058},
  year   = {2024}
}

Comments

44 pages, 5 figures. An invited book chapter for "The Black Hole Information Paradox", to be published by Springer Singapore in 2025. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:2209.11119, arXiv:2106.11306