Rescuing complementarity with little drama

DOI10.1007/JHEP12(2016)026zbMATH Open1390.83173arXiv1607.05141WikidataQ59706961 ScholiaQ59706961MaRDI QIDQ1636615FDOQ1636615

Henry C. Yuen, Jason Pollack, Aidan Chatwin-Davies, Ning Bao, Adam Bouland

Publication date: 12 June 2018

Published in: Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The AMPS paradox challenges black hole complementarity by apparently constructing a way for an observer to bring information from the outside of the black hole into its interior if there is no drama at its horizon, making manifest a violation of monogamy of entanglement. We propose a new resolution to the paradox: this violation cannot be explicitly checked by an infalling observer in the finite proper time they have to live after crossing the horizon. Our resolution depends on a weak relaxation of the no-drama condition (we call it "little drama") which is the "complementarity dual" of scrambling of information on the stretched horizon. When translated to the description of the black hole interior, this implies that the fine-grained quantum information of infalling matter is rapidly diffused across the entire interior while classical observables and coarse-grained geometry remain unaffected. Under the assumption that information has diffused throughout the interior, we consider the difficulty of the information-theoretic task that an observer must perform after crossing the event horizon of a Schwarzschild black hole in order to verify a violation of monogamy of entanglement. We find that the time required to complete a necessary subroutine of this task, namely the decoding of Bell pairs from the interior and the late radiation, takes longer than the maximum amount of time that an observer can spend inside the black hole before hitting the singularity. Therefore, an infalling observer cannot observe monogamy violation before encountering the singularity.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1607.05141

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zbMATH Keywords

black holesmodels of quantum gravity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45) Black holes (83C57)

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