Wednesday, May 23, 2012

1205.4732 (Steven B. Giddings et al.)

Quantum information transfer and models for black hole mechanics    [PDF]

Steven B. Giddings, Yinbo Shi
General features of information transfer between quantum subsystems, via unitary evolution, are investigated, with applications to the problem of information transfer from a black hole to its surroundings. A particularly direct form of quantum information transfer is "subspace transfer," which can be characterized by saturation of a subadditivity inequality. We also describe more general unitary quantum information transfer, and categorize different models for black hole evolution. Evolution that only creates paired excitations inside/outside the black hole is shown not to extract information, but information-transferring models exist both in the "saturating" and "non-saturating" category. The former more closely capture thermodynamic behavior; the latter generically have enhanced energy flux, beyond that of Hawking.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1205.4732

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