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arXiv 2201.11658hep-thquant-ph
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作为量子编码器的宇宙

The Universe as a Quantum Encoder

Jordan Cotler, Andrew Strominger

摘要:

我们宇宙中的量子力学幺正性受到了大爆炸概念和空间膨胀的挑战,在大爆炸中,没有东西变成了东西,在空间膨胀中,东西变成了更多的东西。这激发了量子力学时间演化总是等距的假设,在保持内积的意义上,但不一定是幺正的。作为这一假设的证据,我们证明了在两个时空维中:(i)存在自由场论中由移动的镜子或扩展几何产生的净纠缠熵,(ii)有限元格点离散的洛伦兹路径积分给出了非幺正等距时间演化,(iii)AdS $_3$的张量网络描述在嵌入的二维de Sitter膜世界上诱导了非幺正但等距的时间演化.在最后一个例子中,时间演化是一种量子纠错码。

英文摘要:

Quantum mechanical unitarity in our universe is challenged both by the notion of the big bang, in which nothing transforms into something, and the expansion of space, in which something transforms into more something. This motivates the hypothesis that quantum mechanical time evolution is always isometric, in the sense of preserving inner products, but not necessarily unitary. As evidence for this hypothesis we show that in two spacetime dimensions (i) there is net entanglement entropy produced in free field theory by a moving mirror or expanding geometry, (ii) the Lorentzian path integral for a finite elements lattice discretization gives non-unitary isometric time evolution, and (iii) tensor network descriptions of AdS$_3$ induce a non-unitary but isometric time evolution on an embedded two-dimensional de Sitter braneworld. In the last example time evolution is a quantum error-correcting code.

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