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The detection of gravitational waves in 2015 ushered in a new era of gravitational wave astronomy capable of probing into the strong field dynamics of black holes and neutron stars. It has opened up an exciting new window for laboratory and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-10-14 Jen-Tsung Hsiang , Hing-Tong Cho , Bei-Lok Hu

A large part of the discussion on entanglement islands has explored the specific setup of $2d$ JT gravity with a flat heatbath coupled to a $2d$ CFT. In this paper, we consider a more general setup and treatment of islands in a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-01-04 Filip Landgren , Arvind Shekar

No experiment to date has provided evidence for quantum features of the gravitational interaction. Recently proposed tests suggest looking for the generation of quantum entanglement between massive objects as a possible route towards the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-01-31 Tanjung Krisnanda , Guo Yao Tham , Mauro Paternostro , Tomasz Paterek

We consider black holes in 2d de Sitter JT gravity coupled to a CFT, and entangled with matter in a disjoint non-gravitating universe. Tracing out the entangling matter leaves the CFT in a density matrix whose stress tensor backreacts on…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-02-24 Vijay Balasubramanian , Arjun Kar , Tomonori Ugajin

The large-N limit of asymptotically flat two-dimensional dilaton gravity coupled to N free matter fields provides a useful toy model for semiclassical black holes and the information paradox. Analyses of the asymptotic information flux as…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-08-26 Thomas Hartman , Edgar Shaghoulian , Andrew Strominger

The Fabbri-Russo model is a generalized model of a two-dimensional dilaton gravity theory with various parameters "$n$" describing various specific gravities. Particularly, the Russo-Susskind-Thorlacius gravity model fits the case $n=1$. In…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-04-05 Ming-Hui Yu , Xian-Hui Ge

Christodoulou and Rovelli (CR) [1] have argued that a Bose et al.-Marletto-Vedral (BMV) experiment that confirmed the quantum nature of gravity would give laboratory evidence for a quantum superposition of spacetime geometries created in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-06-03 Adrian Kent

In this paper, we make use of holographic Boundary Conformal Field Theory (BCFT) to simulate the black hole information problem in the semi-classical picture. We investigate the correlation between a portion of Hawking radiation and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-12-25 Yi-Yu Lin , Jun Zhang , Jie-Chen Jin

Due to the weakness of gravitational coupling, all quantum experiments up to date in which gravity plays a role utilized the field of the Earth. Since this field undergoes practically undetectable back-action from quantum particles, it…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-16 Ankit Kumar

We show that the compactified extra dimension and the emergence of the island can provide clues about quantum gravity because their combination can solve the deepest puzzles of black hole physics. Suppose that the time dimension and the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-06-21 Tran N. Hung , Cao H. Nam

One of the most interesting astronomical objects is the Galactic Center. We concentrate our discussion on a theoretical analysis of observational data of bright stars in the IR-band obtained with large telescopes. We also discuss the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-02-13 Alexander F. Zakharov

We consider a class of two-dimensional dilaton gravity models with linear dilaton vacuum including Callan-Giddings-Harvey-Strominger (CGHS) model as the special case. General thermodynamic properties of black holes in such models are…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-11-11 Maxim Fitkevich

Motivated by the study of entanglement island in the Karch-Randall braneworld, it has been conjectured and proven in general that entanglement island is not consistent with long-range (massless) gravity. In this paper, we provide a careful…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-05-06 Hao Geng

In this work, we revisit the problem of finding entanglement islands in 2d Jackiw-Teitelboim (JT) gravity. We implement the following adjustments to the traditional setup: (1) we do not explicitly couple to a non-gravitating system, instead…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-01-16 Julian De Vuyst , Thomas G. Mertens

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

Many experiments have recently been proposed to test whether non-relativistic gravitational interactions can generate entanglement. In this note, I consider the extent to which these experiments can test if the graviton exists. Assuming…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-01-11 Daniel Carney

An experimental detection of graviton is extremely hard problem, however, there are different ways to evaluate a graviton mass if it is non-vanishing. Theories of massive gravity or theories with non-vanishing graviton mass initially have a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-06-26 Alexander F. Zakharov , Predrag Jovanovic , Dusko Borka , Vesna Borka Jovanovic

Gravitational lensing is a powerful probe of cosmology and astrophysics. With the prospect of the first strongly lensed gravitational waves on the horizon, we highlight an opportunity to test fundamental physics. In this work, we assume a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-03 Elena Colangeli , Charles Dalang , Tessa Baker

We study the time evolution of the entanglement entropy of Hawking radiation in the $(n+1)-$dimensional Kerr-Newman black hole evaporation by the holographic approach that considering the $(n+1)-$dimensional AdS eternal black brane coupled…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-09-13 Po-Chun Sun

The consideration of timelike boundaries in de Sitter static patches has a broad motivation, such as the formulation of a well-defined canonical ensemble and the realization of a natural framework for static patch holography. In this work…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-09-17 Timofei Rusalev