Quantum Information in Holographic Duality

TL;DR

This review explains how quantum information theory concepts underpin the holographic duality in AdS/CFT, covering foundational principles, modern techniques, and recent developments in black hole physics.

Contribution

It provides a comprehensive, pedagogical overview connecting quantum information concepts with holographic duality, suitable for newcomers to the field.

Findings

Tensor networks visualize entanglement structures.

Boundary entanglement constrains bulk geometries.

Relations like monogamy of mutual information are essential for semiclassical duals.

Abstract

We give a pedagogical review of how concepts from quantum information theory build up the gravitational side of the AdS/CFT correspondence. The review is self-contained in that it only presupposes knowledge of quantum mechanics and general relativity; other tools--including holographic duality itself--are introduced in the text. We have aimed to give researchers interested in entering this field a working knowledge sufficient for initiating original projects. The review begins with the laws of black hole thermodynamics, which form the basis of this subject, then introduces the Ryu-Takayanagi proposal, the JLMS relation, and subregion duality. We discuss tensor networks as a visualization tool and analyze various network architectures in detail. Next, several modern concepts and techniques are discussed: Renyi entropies and the replica trick, differential entropy and kinematic space, modular Berry phases, modular minimal entropy, entanglement wedge cross sections, bit threads, and others. We discuss the extent to which bulk geometries are fixed by boundary entanglement entropies, and analyze the relations such as the monogamy of mutual information, which boundary entanglement entropies must obey if a state has a semiclassical bulk dual. We close with a discussion of black holes, including holographic complexity, firewalls and the black hole information paradox, islands, and replica wormholes.