The holographic dual of a Hawking pair has a wormhole

TL;DR

This paper explores the holographic dual of an entangled Hawking pair, demonstrating that it corresponds to a wormhole, and extends previous work by coupling to dynamical gravity and considering black hole backgrounds.

Contribution

It introduces a holographic model of Hawking pairs with dynamical gravity and black hole backgrounds, supporting ER=EPR as a duality between wormholes and entanglement.

Findings

Holographic dual of Hawking pair corresponds to a wormhole.

Coupling entangled pairs to dynamical gravity is achieved via a Randall-Sundrum brane.

ER=EPR is supported as a duality between wormholes and entanglement.

Abstract

In previous work, two of us constructed the holographic dual of a single Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen (EPR) pair in maximally supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory. Here we extend that work in two directions. First, we use a Randall-Sundrum brane to couple the entangled pair to dynamical gravity. Second, we consider the entangled pair in the background of a black hole with the particles on opposite sides of the horizon, turning the EPR pair into a Hawking pair. We give general arguments that ER=EPR should be understood as a duality between two equivalent descriptions of the same physical reality.