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Entanglement islands have played a key role in the recent derivation of the Page curve and other progress on the black hole information problem. Arising from the inclusion of connected wormhole saddles in a gravitational replica trick,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-06-06 Stefano Antonini , Chang-Han Chen , Henry Maxfield , Geoff Penington

We show that spatial curvature has a significant effect on the existence of entanglement islands in cosmology. We consider a homogeneous, isotropic universe with thermal radiation purified by a reference spacetime. Arbitrarily small…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-04-27 Raphael Bousso , Elizabeth Wildenhain

The entanglement entropy of the Hawking radiation contains contributions from a region inside the black hole, which is called islands, implying that the Hawking radiation contains the information of islands. The boundary of the island is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-12-31 Yoshinori Matsuo

We discuss the possibility of entanglement islands in cosmological spacetimes with a general perfect fluid with an equation of state $w$. We find that flat universes with time-symmetric slices where the Hubble parameter vanishes always have…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-03-29 Ido Ben-Dayan , Merav Hadad , Elizabeth Wildenhain

We study the redundancies in the global spacetime description of the eternally inflating multiverse using the quantum extremal surface prescription. We argue that a sufficiently large spatial region in a bubble universe has an entanglement…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-10-13 Kevin Langhoff , Chitraang Murdia , Yasunori Nomura

Recent progress in our understanding of the black hole information paradox has lead to a new prescription for calculating entanglement entropies, which involves special subsystems in regions where gravity is dynamical, called…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-08-27 Hong Zhe Chen , Robert C. Myers , Dominik Neuenfeld , Ignacio A. Reyes , Joshua Sandor

We propose an alternate cosmological model in which our observable universe is an island in a cosmological constant sea. Initially the universe is filled with cosmological constant of the currently observed value but is otherwise empty. In…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Sourish Dutta , Tanmay Vachaspati

We investigate the appearance of islands when a closed universe with gravity is entangled with a non-gravitating quantum system. We use braneworlds in three-dimensional multiboundary wormhole geometries as a model to explore what happens…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-07-21 Seamus Fallows , Simon F. Ross

Recently in various theoretical works, path-breaking progress has been made in recovering the well-known Page Curve of an evaporating black hole with Quantum Extremal Islands, proposed to solve the long-standing black hole information loss…

If the observed dark energy is a cosmological constant, the canonical state of the universe is de Sitter spacetime. In such a spacetime, quantum fluctuations that violate the null energy condition will create islands of matter that, if…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-04-30 Sourish Dutta , Tanmay Vachaspati

Identifying an entanglement island requires exquisite control over the entropy of quantum fields, which is available only in toy models. Here we present a set of sufficient conditions that guarantee the existence of an island and place an…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-05-12 Raphael Bousso , Arvin Shahbazi-Moghaddam

We use quantum extremal island method to study the information paradox on certain cosmological setups known as three dimensional Kerr-de Sitter spacetimes. To do so, we couple an auxiliary flat bath system to this spacetime in timelike…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-08-09 Sanam Azarnia , Reza Fareghbal

It has been suggested in recent work that the Page curve of Hawking radiation can be recovered using computations in semi-classical gravity provided one allows for "islands" in the gravity region of quantum systems coupled to gravity. The…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-07-01 Ahmed Almheiri , Raghu Mahajan , Jorge E. Santos

The cosmological event horizons are observer-dependent, which might bring a paradox. As an example, in dS$_{2}$ multiverse model there are entanglement islands in crunching regions encoding the information of regions near future infinity of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-03-28 Wen-Hao Jiang , Yun-Song Piao

Following our previous work on hybrid quantum states in the RST model, we study its most interesting solution representing a completely regular spacetime with the structure of causal diamond, containing an apparent horizon and radiation at…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-11-15 Yohan Potaux , Debajyoti Sarkar , Sergey N. Solodukhin

We search for candidate island regions in FRW cosmologies supported by radiation, cosmological constant $\Lambda$, and non-zero spatial curvature. The radiation is assumed to be in a thermal state. We apply the necessary conditions…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-03-10 Ricardo Espíndola , Bahman Najian , Dora Nikolakopoulou

It has been argued that there are no islands in FLRW cosmologies with $\Lambda>0$ and $k=0$ arXiv:2008.01022. We argue that there is a timelike separated island at the initial singularity, and it will resolve the cosmological information…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-11-29 K. Sreeman Reddy

Information located in an entanglement island in semiclassical gravity can be nonperturbatively reconstructed from distant radiation, implying a radical breakdown of effective field theory. We show that this occurs well outside of the black…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-12-21 Raphael Bousso , Geoff Penington

Placing a black hole in a cavity provides a natural framework for exploring gravitational scales, thermodynamic instabilities, and effective gravity theories. In this paper, we examine the evolution of entanglement entropy and entanglement…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-12-23 Dmitry S. Ageev , Irina Ya. Aref'eva , Timofei A. Rusalev

Entanglement islands are subregions in a gravitational universe whose information is fully encoded in a disconnected non-gravitational system away from it. In the context of the black hole information paradox, entanglement islands state…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-28 Hao Geng
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