Information Scrambling at Quantum Hall Interfaces and Their Analog to Black Hole Event Horizon

TL;DR

This paper explores how information scrambling occurs at quantum Hall interfaces, serving as analogues to black hole event horizons, and discusses the implications for understanding the black hole information paradox.

Contribution

It provides a detailed analysis of information scrambling mechanisms at quantum Hall interfaces and draws parallels to black hole physics concepts.

Findings

Information carried by Abelian anyons gets scrambled at interfaces.

Scrambling mechanisms depend on the interface type.

Analogues of black hole concepts are discussed in quantum Hall systems.

Abstract

The black hole information paradox has been hotly debated for the last few decades without a full resolution. This makes it desirable to find analogues of this paradox in simple and experimentally accessible systems, whose resolutions may shed light on this longstanding and fundamental problem. Here, we review and resolve the apparent "information paradox" in two different interfaces separating Abelian and non-Abelian quantum Hall states. In both cases, the information carried by the pseudospin degree of freedom of the Abelian anyons get scrambled when they cross the interface and enter the non-Abelian quantum Hall liquid. Nevertheless, it is found that the scrambling mechanism depends on the nature of the interface. The corresponding analogues of different concepts in black hole physics such as event horizon, black hole interior, Hawking radiation, and Page curve will also be discussed.