A random unitary circuit model for black hole evaporation

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DOI10.1007/JHEP04(2020)063zbMATH Open1436.83031arXiv2002.09236OpenAlexW3098675218MaRDI QIDQ780708FDOQ780708

Lorenzo Piroli, Xiao-Liang Qi, Christoph Sünderhauf

Publication date: 15 July 2020

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

Abstract: Inspired by the Hayden-Preskill protocol for black hole evaporation, we consider the dynamics of a quantum many-body qudit system coupled to an external environment, where the time evolution is driven by the continuous limit of certain 2-local random unitary circuits. We study both cases where the unitaries are chosen with and without a conserved U(1) charge and focus on two aspects of the dynamics. First, we study analytically and numerically the growth of the entanglement entropy of the system, showing that two different time scales appear: one is intrinsic to the internal dynamics (the scrambling time), while the other depends on the system-environment coupling. In the presence of a U(1) conserved charge, we show that the entanglement follows a Page-like behavior in time: it begins to decrease in the middle stage of the "evaporation", and decreases monotonically afterwards. Second, we study the time needed to retrieve information initially injected in the system from measurements on the environment qudits. Based on explicit numerical computations, we characterize such time both when the retriever has control over the initial configuration or not, showing that different scales appear in the two cases.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.09236




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