More on Half-Wormholes and Ensemble Average

TL;DR

This paper advances the understanding of half-wormholes by proposing a new detection method based on observable decomposition, revealing sector condensation phenomena that may indicate bulk gravitational descriptions.

Contribution

It introduces a novel approach to identify half-wormholes through observable sector decomposition and explores multi-linked half-wormholes within this framework.

Findings

Sector contributions exhibit interesting statistical behavior in the semi-classical limit.

Condensation of dominant sectors explains the emergence of half-wormholes.

The approach suggests a link between sector condensation and bulk gravitational descriptions.

Abstract

We continue our study about the half-wormhole proposal. By generalizing the original proposal of half-wormhole we propose a new way to detect half-wormholes. The crucial idea is to decompose the observables into self-averaged sector and non-self-averaged sectors. We find the contributions from different sectors have interesting statistics in the semi-classical limit. In particular, dominant sectors tend to condense and the condensation explains the emergence of half-wormholes and we expect that the appearance of condensation is a signal of possible bulk description. We also initiate the study of multi-linked-half-wormholes using our approach.