Signaling, Entanglement, and Quantum Evolution Beyond Cauchy Horizons

Details Signaling, Entanglement, and Quantum Evolution Beyond Cauchy Horizons Signaling, Entanglement, and Quantum Evolution Beyond Cauchy Horizons

2004-09-29

arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0409112v1

Class.Quant.Grav. 22 (2005) 295-312

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Combined, revised, and expanded version of quant-ph/0312160 and hep-th/0402060; 13 pages, RevTeX, 2 eps figures

Scientific paper

10.1088/0264-9381/22/2/004

Consider a bipartite entangled system half of which falls through the event horizon of an evaporating black hole, while the other half remains coherently accessible to experiments in the exterior region. Beyond complete evaporation, the evolution of the quantum state past the Cauchy horizon cannot remain unitary, raising the questions: How can this evolution be described as a quantum map, and how is causality preserved? What are the possible effects of such nonstandard quantum evolution maps on the behavior of the entangled laboratory partner? More generally, the laws of quantum evolution under extreme conditions in remote regions (not just in evaporating black-hole interiors, but possibly near other naked singularities and regions of extreme spacetime structure) remain untested by observation, and might conceivably be non-unitary or even nonlinear, raising the same questions about the evolution of entangled states. The answers to these questions are subtle, and are linked in unexpected ways to the fundamental laws of quantum mechanics. We show that terrestrial experiments can be designed to probe and constrain exactly how the laws of quantum evolution might be altered, either by black-hole evaporation, or by other extreme processes in remote regions possibly governed by unknown physics.

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