Product of Random States and Spatial (Half-)Wormholes
Abstract
We study how coarse-graining procedure of an underlying UV-complete quantum gravity gives rise to a connected geometry. It has been shown, quantum entanglement plays a key role in the emergence of such a geometric structure, namely a smooth Einstein-Rosen bridge. In this paper, we explore the possibility of the emergence of similar geometric structure from classical correlation, in the AdS/CFT setup. To this end, we consider a setup where we have two decoupled CFT Hilbert spaces, then choose a random typical state in one of the Hilbert spaces and the same state in the other. The total state in the fine-grained picture is of course a tensor product state, but averaging over the states sharing the same random coefficients creates a geometric connection for simple probes. Then, the apparent spatial wormhole causes a factorization puzzle. We argue that there is a spatial analog of half-wormholes, which resolves the puzzle in the similar way as the spacetime half-wormholes.
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@article{arxiv.2108.08308,
title = {Product of Random States and Spatial (Half-)Wormholes},
author = {Kanato Goto and Yuya Kusuki and Kotaro Tamaoka and Tomonori Ugajin},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2108.08308},
year = {2021}
}
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32 pages, 3 figures