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Holographic Dual of an Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen Pair has a Wormhole

Kristan Jensen and Andreas Karch
Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 211602 – Published 20 November 2013
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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 Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen (EPR) pair. In the holographic dual, the entanglement is encoded in a geometry of a nontraversable wormhole on the world sheet of the flux tube connecting the pair. This gives a simple example supporting the recent claim by Maldacena and Susskind that EPR pairs and nontraversable wormholes are equivalent descriptions of the same physics.

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  • Received 6 August 2013

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.111.211602

© 2013 American Physical Society

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Entangled through a Wormhole

Published 20 November 2013

Expanding on recent studies of black hole entanglement, researchers have now drawn a connection between entangled quark pairs and wormholes.

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Authors & Affiliations

Kristan Jensen1 and Andreas Karch2

  • 1Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia V8W 3P6, Canada
  • 2Department of Physics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195-1560, USA

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Holographic Schwinger Effect and the Geometry of Entanglement

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Vol. 111, Iss. 21 — 22 November 2013

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