Fast scrambling in holographic Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen pair

TL;DR

This paper shows that a holographic model of an EPR pair exhibits fast scrambling, with correlation destruction times scaling logarithmically with entropy, and confirms the Lyapunov bound saturation, challenging the direct link to Einstein duals.

Contribution

It demonstrates fast scrambling in a holographic EPR pair model and analyzes the Lyapunov exponent, providing insights into the relation between scrambling, chaos, and holography.

Findings

Correlation between quark and antiquark is quickly destroyed by increased acceleration.

Lyapunov exponent saturates the chaos bound at $rac{2 ext{pi}}{eta}$.

Causal connection and wormhole formation occur when acceleration decreases.

Abstract

We demonstrate that a holographic model of the Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen pair exhibits fast scrambling. Strongly entangled quark and antiquark in $\mathcal{N}=4$ super Yang-Mills theory are considered. Their gravity dual is a fundamental string whose endpoints are uniformly accelerated in opposite direction. We slightly increase the acceleration of the endpoint and show that it quickly destroys the correlation between the quark and antiquark. The proper time scale of the destruction is $\tau_\ast\sim \beta \ln S$ where $\beta$ is the inverse Unruh temperature and $S$ is the entropy of the accelerating quark. We also evaluate the Lyapunov exponent from correlation function as $\lambda_L=2\pi/\beta$, which saturates the Lyapunov bound. Our results suggest that the fast scrambling or saturation of the Lyapunov bound do not directly imply the existence of an Einstein dual. When we slightly decrease the acceleration, the quark and antiquark are causally connected and an "one-way traversable wormhole" is created on the worldsheet. It causes the divergence of the correlation function between the quark and antiquark.