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Hawking radiation and the quantum marginal problem
KTH, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS), Computer Science, Computational Science and Technology (CST).ORCID iD: 0000-0003-4906-3603
Institute of Theoretical Physics, Jagiellonian University, Łojasiewicza 11, Kraków 30-348, Poland; Copernicus Center for Interdisciplinary Studies, ul. Szczepańska 1/5, Kraków 31-011, Poland.
International Centre for Theory of Quantum Technologies, University of Gdańsk, Wita Stwosza 63, Gdańsk 80-308, Poland; Faculty of Applied Physics and Mathematics, National Quantum Information Centre, Gdańsk University of Technology, Gabriela Narutowicza 11/12, Gdańsk 80-233, Poland.
2022 (English)In: Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, E-ISSN 1475-7516, Vol. 2022, no 01, article id 014Article in journal (Refereed) Published
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In 1974 Steven Hawking showed that black holes emit thermal radiation, which eventually causes them to evaporate. The problem of the fate of information in this process is known as the "black hole information paradox". Two main types of resolution postulate either a fundamental loss of information in Nature - hence the breakdown of quantum mechanics - or some sort of new physics, e.g. quantum gravity, which guarantee the global preservation of unitarity. Here we explore the second possibility with the help of recent developments in continuous-variable quantum information. Concretely, we employ the solution to the Gaussian quantum marginal problem to show that the thermality of all individual Hawking modes is consistent with a global pure state of the radiation. Surprisingly, we find out that the mods of radiation of an astrophysical black hole are thermal until the very last burst. In contrast, the single-mode thermality of Hawking radiation originating from microscopic black holes, expected to evaporate through several quanta, is not excluded, though there are constraints on modes' frequencies. Our result paves the way towards a systematic study of multi-mode correlations in Hawking radiation.

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IOP Publishing , 2022. Vol. 2022, no 01, article id 014
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quantum black holes, gravity
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URN: urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-309260DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2022/01/014ISI: 000751946700020Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85123711363OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kth-309260DiVA, id: diva2:1643023
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