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arXiv:1307.1132hep-th

The holographic dual of an EPR pair has a wormhole

Kristan Jensen, Andreas Karch

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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.

arXiv comments
6 pages, 4 figures; v2: references added, improved discussion of entanglement for quasiparticles, new section on correlation functions
Journal reference
Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 211602 (2013)
DOI
doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.111.211602
Subjects
hep-thHigh Energy Physics, Theory

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  1. You can’t get entangled without a wormhole 1 comment

    • It looks like the original research paper that this press release is talking about is here: http://arxiv.org/abs/1307.6850 The paper mentioned in the press release that it's directly building on (by Jensen and Karch) is: http://arxiv.org/abs/arXiv:1307.1132 And the earlier…

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