Quantum Circuit Model of Black Hole Evaporation with Controlled Causal Leakage

TL;DR

This paper models black hole evaporation using a quantum circuit that allows controlled information leakage, revealing how slight causality violations impact entanglement and entropy, mimicking quantum gravity effects.

Contribution

It introduces a tunable parameter to control causality violation in a quantum circuit model of black holes, exploring its effects on information dynamics during evaporation.

Findings

Small causality violations lead to residual entropy.

Persistent negativity indicates horizon permeability.

Deviations mimic quantum gravity phenomena.

Abstract

We extend a four-qubit quantum circuit model of black hole evaporation that enforces semi-causality, a condition that allows information to enter a black hole but strictly forbids any information from escaping from the interior to outside through the horizon. In this work, we introduce a controlled violation of this principle by inserting a parametric controlled-unitary gate that enables a tunable leakage of quantum information from the black hole interior to the exterior, while preserving global unitarity. By varying the deformation parameter, we study the evolution of entanglement entropy, mutual information, and entanglement negativity throughout the evaporation process. While the semi-causal case yields a Page-like entropy curve with vanishing late-time correlations, we find that even small violations of semi-causality produce a non-zero residual entropy and persistent negativity across the horizon. These features mimic quantum-gravity-induced effects such as remnant formation and horizon permeability, suggesting that minimal deviations from classical causality can leave long-lived imprints on black hole information dynamics.