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The holographic dual of an EPR pair has a wormhole

High Energy Physics - Theory 2013-11-27 v2

Abstract

We construct the holographic dual of two colored quasiparticles in maximally supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory entangled in a color singlet EPR pair. In the holographic dual the entanglement is encoded in a geometry of a non-traversable wormhole on the worldsheet of the flux tube connecting the pair. This gives a simple example supporting the recent claim by Maldacena and Susskind that EPR pairs and non-traversable wormholes are equivalent descriptions of the same physics.

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@article{arxiv.1307.1132,
  title  = {The holographic dual of an EPR pair has a wormhole},
  author = {Kristan Jensen and Andreas Karch},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1307.1132},
  year   = {2013}
}

Comments

6 pages, 4 figures; v2: references added, improved discussion of entanglement for quasiparticles, new section on correlation functions