Journal of High Energy Physics (Oct 2021)

How to make traversable wormholes: eternal AdS4 wormholes from coupled CFT’s

  • Suzanne Bintanja,
  • Ricardo Espíndola,
  • Ben Freivogel,
  • Dora Nikolakopoulou

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP10(2021)173
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 2021, no. 10
pp. 1 – 32

Abstract

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Abstract We construct an eternal traversable wormhole connecting two asymptotically AdS4 regions. The wormhole is dual to the ground state of a system of two identical holographic CFT’s coupled via a single low-dimension operator. The coupling between the two CFT’s leads to negative null energy in the bulk, which supports a static traversable wormhole. As the ground state of a simple Hamiltonian, it may be possible to make these wormholes in the lab or on a quantum computer.

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