The holographic dual of an EPR pair has a wormhole

2013/07/03 by Kristan Jensen, Andreas Karch · 1 voice · 3 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #hep-th

paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevlett.111.211602

published as Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 211602 (2013) · 6 pages, 4 figures; v2: references added, improved discussion of entanglement for quasiparticles, new section on correlation functions

arxiv published 2013/07/03 · arxiv created 2013/07/23 · arxiv updated 2013/11/27

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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Discussions

• Short answer: The ER=EPR idea, proposed by Maldacena and Susskind in 2013, is more than a metaphor but not quite an experimentally testable physical theory, at least not yet. It’s a bold conjecture su [stackexchange, 3 points]

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