Physics (Internal)

The Schwinger effect and the geometry of entanglement

This event is part of the HET Seminar Series.

Abstract:

Is there a connection between entanglement and space-time geometry? Recently Maldacena and Susskind proposed that entanglement is associated with Einstein-Rosen bridges, also called`non-traversable wormholes'. I will approach this question by constructing a holographically dual description of a maximally entangled pair of quarks, using the Schwinger effect at large 't Hooft coupling \lambda in N=4 supersymmetric Yang Mills theory. We shall see that there is indeed a wormhole associated with the dual of the the pair of quarks, at least when they are causally disconnected.