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Tunneling through an eternal traversable wormhole

  • 1. ROR icon Tsinghua University
  • 2. ROR icon California Institute of Technology

Abstract

The Maldacena-Qi model describes two copies of the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev model coupled with an additional coupling and is dual to the Jackiw-Teitelboim gravity, which exhibits an eternal traversable wormhole in the low-temperature limit. In this work, we study an experimental consequence of the existence of the traversable wormhole by considering the tunneling spectroscopy for the Maldacena-Qi model. Making comparisons to the high-temperature black-hole phase where the bulk geometry is disconnected, we find that both the tunneling probability and the differential conductance in the low-temperature wormhole phase show nontrivial oscillation, which directly provides an unambiguous signature of the underlying SL(2) symmetry of the bulk geometry. We also perform bulk calculations in both high- and low-temperature phases, which match the results from the boundary quantum theory.

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© 2020 American Physical Society. (Received 15 September 2020; accepted 2 December 2020; published 16 December 2020) We thank Yingfei Gu for helpful discussions. P.Z. also thanks Yiming Chen and Xiao-Liang Qi for valuable discussions when collaborating on previous works [42,43]. P.Z. acknowledges support from the Walter Burke Institute for Theoretical Physics at Caltech.

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Walter Burke Institute for Theoretical Physics, Caltech

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