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We interpret the traversable wormhole in AdS/CFT in the context of quantum information theory. In particular, we investigate its properties as both a quantum channel and entanglement witness. We define protocols that allow either the bounding of the channel’s entanglement capacity or the determination of aspects of the entanglement structure between the two boundary CFTs. Such protocols and connections allow for the use of quantum channel techniques in the study of gravitational physics and vice versa. More generally, our results suggest a purely quantum information-theoretic criterion for recognizing when the product of two boundary theories has a classical bulk interpretation.
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Bao, N., Chatwin-Davies, A., Pollack, J. et al. Traversable wormholes as quantum channels: exploring CFT entanglement structure and channel capacity in holography. J. High Energ. Phys. 2018, 71 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP11(2018)071
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