Expanding the black hole interior: partially entangled thermal states in SYK

• Main Authors: Akash Goel, Ho Tat Lam, Gustavo J. Turiaci, Herman Verlinde
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: SpringerOpen 2019-02-01
• Series: Journal of High Energy Physics
• Subjects: 2D Gravity; AdS-CFT Correspondence; Models of Quantum Gravity
• Online Access: http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/JHEP02(2019)156

Abstract We introduce a family of partially entangled thermal states in the SYK model that interpolates between the thermo-field double state and a pure (product) state. The states are prepared by a euclidean path integral describing the evolution over two euclidean time segments separated by a local scaling operator O $$ \mathcal{O} $$ . We argue that the holographic dual of this class of states consists of two black holes with their interior regions connected via a domain wall, described by the worldline of a massive particle. We compute the size of the interior region and the entanglement entropy as a function of the scale dimension of O $$ \mathcal{O} $$ and the temperature of each black hole. We argue that the one-sided bulk reconstruction can access the interior region of the black hole.