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Traversable Wormholes via a Double Trace Deformation

Ping Gao, Daniel Louis Jafferis, Aron C. Wall

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Abstract

After turning on an interaction that couples the two boundaries of an eternal BTZ black hole, we find a quantum matter stress tensor with negative average null energy, whose gravitational backreaction renders the Einstein-Rosen bridge traversable. Such a traversable wormhole has an interesting interpretation in the context of ER=EPR, which we suggest might be related to quantum teleportation. However, it cannot be used to violate causality. We also discuss the implications for the energy and holographic entropy in the dual CFT description.

arXiv comments
19 pages, 4 figures, 1 appendix
Journal reference
DOI
doi:10.1007/JHEP12(2017)151
Subjects
hep-thHigh Energy Physics, Theory

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  1. What is spacetime made of? 1 comment

    • You might be excited by [0]. The idea there is to study a novel phenomenon in strongly-coupled quantum systems that is very complex to see ordinarily, but becomes easy to understand when you look at the same physics from the gravitational perspective. That would be a nontrivial…

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  2. Humanly traversable wormholes (2020) 1 comment

    • I can see why it might look like that from the outside, but the set of mathematical results that led up to it actually come from the angle of, “let’s try to prove that traversable wormholes and the negative energy densities required to create them are impossible.” In trying to…

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