SYK wormhole formation in real time

Dec 6, 2019
33 pages
Published in:
  • JHEP 04 (2021) 258
  • Published: Apr 27, 2021
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Abstract: (arXiv)
We study the real time formation of the ground state of two coupled SYK models. This is a highly entangled state which is close to the thermofield double state and can be viewed as a wormhole. We start from a high temperature state, we let it cool by coupling to a cold bath. We numerically solve for the large N dynamics. Our main result is that the system forms a wormhole by going through a region with negative specific heat, taking time that is independent of N. The dynamics is smooth everywhere and it seems to follow the equilibrium thermodynamic configurations of the microcanonical ensemble. Also we comment on the relation between this coupled SYK model and Jackiw-Teitelboim gravity theory with bulk fields.
Note:
  • v1: 23 pages + appendices, 14 figures. v2: typos fixed, references added
  • 1/N Expansion
  • 2D Gravity
  • Field Theories in Lower Dimensions
  • Models of Quantum Gravity
  • wormhole: formation
  • Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev
  • temperature: high
  • field theory: finite temperature
  • expansion 1/N
  • entanglement