Page curves and replica wormholes from random dynamics

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Publication date 07-2024
Journal Journal of High Energy Physics
Article number 23
Volume | Issue number 2024 | 7
Number of pages 40
Organisations
  • Faculty of Science (FNWI) - Institute of Physics (IoP)
  • Faculty of Science (FNWI) - Institute of Physics (IoP) - Institute for Theoretical Physics Amsterdam (ITFA)
Abstract

We show how to capture both the non-unitary Page curve and replica wormhole-like contributions that restore unitarity in a toy quantum system with random dynamics. The motivation is to find the simplest dynamical model that captures this aspect of gravitational physics. In our model, we evolve with an ensemble of Hamiltonians with GUE statistics within microcanonical windows. The entropy of the averaged state gives the non-unitary curve, the averaged entropy gives the unitary curve, and the difference comes from matrix index contractions in the Haar averaging that connect the density matrices in a replica wormhole-like manner.

Document type Article
Language English
Published at https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP07(2024)023
Other links https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85197487028
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