English

Islands and traversable wormholes

High Energy Physics - Theory 2025-10-28 v1 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

We study information recovery in black hole evaporation using traversable wormhole protocols in AdS2_2 Jackiw-Teitelboim gravity with matter fields coupled to an external bath. By introducing a simple non-local interaction between left and right radiation regions, we generate negative-energy shockwaves that render the wormhole traversable. We compute the resulting shifts in Kruskal coordinates, changes in the stress tensor, and backreaction effects on quantum extremal surfaces, finding a consistent decrease of the generalized entropy that aligns with the flat Page curve. Finally, we analyze the impact of negative-energy shocks on boundary two-point functions, providing a microscopic probe of island/radiation duality and discussing possible implications for experimental realizations in analog quantum-mechanical models.

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@article{arxiv.2510.21985,
  title  = {Islands and traversable wormholes},
  author = {Ricardo Espíndola and Viktor Jahnke and Keun-Young Kim},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2510.21985},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

34 pages, 7 figures

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