Islands outside the horizon
Oct 24, 2019
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Abstract: (arXiv)
We consider an AdS black hole in equilibrium with a bath, which we take to have a dual description as (0+1)-dimensional quantum mechanical system coupled to a (1+1)-dimensional field theory serving as the bath. We compute the entropies of both the quantum mechanical degrees of freedom and of the bath separately, while allowing contributions from entanglement wedge "islands". We find situations where the island extends {\it outside} the black hole horizon. This suggests possible causality paradoxes which we show are avoided because of the quantum focusing conjecture. Finally, we formulate a version of the information paradox for a black hole in contact with a bath in the Hartle-Hawking state, and demonstrate the role of islands in resolving this paradox.Note:
- 23 pages, 9 figures. New in v4: We include an argument for the conformal QNEC in 2D flat space and the QFC in two dimensions
- black hole: horizon
- quantum mechanics
- information theory
- entropy: entanglement
- causality
- gravitation
- equilibrium
- finite temperature
- radiation: Hawking
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