Quantum Channel Capacity of Traversable Wormhole
High Energy Physics - Theory
2026-03-30 v1
Abstract
We formulate the Gao-Jafferis-Wall traversable wormhole protocol as a quantum channel and compute its quantum channel capacity. We show that this capacity is governed by the time derivative of an out-of-time-ordered correlator, hence by operator size growth in the holographic dual, and that its growth is bounded above by the Einstein gravity limit. The channel capacity therefore provides a natural benchmark for quantum simulations of traversable wormholes.
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@article{arxiv.2603.26051,
title = {Quantum Channel Capacity of Traversable Wormhole},
author = {Jingru Lu and Zhenbin Yang and Jianming Zheng},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2603.26051},
year = {2026}
}
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12 pages, 8 figures