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Replica wormhole and information retrieval in the SYK model coupled to Majorana chains

High Energy Physics - Theory 2020-11-04 v3

Abstract

Motivated by recent studies of the information paradox in (1+1)-D anti-de Sitter spacetime with a bath described by a (1+1)-D conformal field theory, we study the dynamics of second R\'{e}nyi entropy of the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) model (χ\chi) coupled to a Majorana chain bath (ψ\psi). The system is prepared in the thermofield double (TFD) state and then evolved by HL+HRH_L+H_R. For small system-bath coupling, we find that the second R\'{e}nyi entropy SχL,χR(2)S^{(2)}_{\chi_L, \chi_R} of the SYK model undergoes a first order transition during the evolution. In the sense of holographic duality, the long-time solution corresponds to a "replica wormhole". The transition time corresponds to the Page time of a black hole coupled to a thermal bath. We further study the information scrambling and retrieval by introducing a classical control bit, which controls whether or not we add a perturbation in the SYK system. The mutual information between the bath and the control bit shows a positive jump at the Page time, indicating that the entanglement wedge of the bath includes an island in the holographic bulk.

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@article{arxiv.2003.13147,
  title  = {Replica wormhole and information retrieval in the SYK model coupled to Majorana chains},
  author = {Yiming Chen and Xiao-Liang Qi and Pengfei Zhang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2003.13147},
  year   = {2020}
}

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25 pages, 12 figures