Wormhole and entanglement (non-)detection in the ER=EPR correspondence

被引:12
作者
Bao, Ning [1 ,2 ]
Pollack, Jason [2 ]
Remmen, Grant N. [2 ]
机构
[1] CALTECH, Inst Quantum Informat & Matter, Pasadena, CA 91125 USA
[2] CALTECH, Walter Burke Inst Theoret Phys, Pasadena, CA 91125 USA
关键词
Black Holes; Gauge-gravity correspondence; AdS-CFT Correspondence; FIELD-THEORIES; BLACK-HOLES; CAUSALITY;
D O I
10.1007/JHEP11(2015)126
中图分类号
O412 [相对论、场论]; O572.2 [粒子物理学];
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摘要
The recently proposed ER=EPR correspondence postulates the existence of wormholes (Einstein-Rosen bridges) between entangled states (such as EPR pairs). Entanglement is famously known to be unobservable in quantum mechanics, in that there exists no observable (or, equivalently, projector) that can accurately pick out whether a generic state is entangled. Many features of the geometry of spacetime, however, are observables, so one might worry that the presence or absence of a wormhole could identify an entangled state in ER=EPR, violating quantum mechanics, specifically, the property of state-independence of observables. In this note, we establish that this cannot occur: there is no measurement in general relativity that unambiguously detects the presence of a generic wormhole geometry. This statement is the ER=EPR dual of the undetectability of entanglement.
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