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Holographic measurement and bulk teleportation

Journal

JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS
Volume -, Issue 12, Pages -

Publisher

SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP12(2022)124

Keywords

AdS-CFT Correspondence; Gauge-Gravity Correspondence; Models of Quantum Gravity

Funding

  1. U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of Advanced Scientific Computing Research, Accelerated Research for Quantum Computing program FAR-QC
  2. AFOSR [FA9550-19-1-0360]
  3. GeoFlow consortium under U.S. Department of Energy [DE-SC0019380]
  4. U.S. Department of Defense
  5. NIST through the Hartree Postdoctoral Fellowship at QuICS
  6. Air Force Office of Scientific Research [FA9550-19-1-0360]
  7. National Science Foundation [PHY-1733907]
  8. Simons Foundation through It from Qubit: Simons Collaboration on Quantum Fields, Gravity, and Information
  9. MEXT-JSPS [21H05187]
  10. Simons Foundation via the It From Qubit Collaboration

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This paper investigates the effects of local projective measurements on the dual spacetime in holography. It is found that such measurements destroy parts of the bulk geometry and result in post-measurement bulk spacetimes that are cut off by end-of-the-world branes. The preserved portions of the bulk geometry depend on the size of the measured region and the state being projected. Furthermore, measurements teleport part of the bulk information originally encoded in the measured region into the complementary region.
Holography has taught us that spacetime is emergent and its properties depend on the entanglement structure of the dual theory. In this paper, we describe how changes in the entanglement due to a local projective measurement (LPM) on a subregion A of the boundary theory modify the bulk dual spacetime. We find that LPMs destroy portions of the bulk geometry, yielding post-measurement bulk spacetimes dual to the complementary unmeasured region Ac that are cut off by end-of-the-world branes. Using a bulk calculation in AdS3 and tensor network models of holography (in particular, the HaPPY code and random tensor networks), we show that the portions of the bulk geometry that are preserved after the measurement depend on the size of A and the state we project onto. The post-measurement bulk dual to Ac includes regions that were originally part of the entanglement wedge of A prior to measurement. This suggests that LPMs performed on a boundary subregion A teleport part of the bulk information originally encoded in A into the complementary region Ac. In semiclassical holography an arbitrary amount of bulk information can be teleported in this way, while in tensor network models the teleported information is upper-bounded by the amount of entanglement shared between A and Ac due to finite- N effects. When A is the union of two disjoint subregions, the measurement triggers an entangled/disentangled phase transition between the remaining two unmeasured subregions, corresponding to a connected/disconnected phase transition in the bulk description. Our results shed new light on the effects of measurement on the entanglement structure of holographic theories and give insight on how bulk information can be manipulated from the boundary theory. They could also represent a first step towards a holographic description of measurement-induced phase transitions.

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