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Holographic Schwinger Effect and the Geometry of Entanglement

Julian Sonner
Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 211603 – Published 20 November 2013
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Abstract

We show that the recently proposed bulk dual of an entangled pair of a quark and an antiquark corresponds to the Lorentzian continuation of the tunneling instanton describing Schwinger pair creation in the dual field theory. This observation supports and further explains the claim by Jensen and Karch that the bulk dual of an Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen pair is a string with a wormhole on its world sheet. We suggest that this constitutes a holographically dual realization of the creation of a Wheeler wormhole.

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  • Received 2 August 2013

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.111.211603

© 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

Julian Sonner*

  • Center for Theoretical Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA and L.N.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA

  • *sonner@mit.edu

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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 (2013)

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Vol. 111, Iss. 21 — 22 November 2013

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