Replica wormhole and information retrieval in the SYK model coupled to Majorana chains (2003.13147v3)

Abstract: Motivated by recent studies of the information paradox in (1+1)-D anti-de Sitter spacetime with a bath described by a (1+1)-D conformal field theory, we study the dynamics of second R\'{e}nyi entropy of the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) model ($\chi$) coupled to a Majorana chain bath ($\psi$). The system is prepared in the thermofield double (TFD) state and then evolved by $H_L+H_R$. For small system-bath coupling, we find that the second R\'{e}nyi entropy $S^{(2)}_{\chi_L, \chi_R}$ of the SYK model undergoes a first order transition during the evolution. In the sense of holographic duality, the long-time solution corresponds to a "replica wormhole". The transition time corresponds to the Page time of a black hole coupled to a thermal bath. We further study the information scrambling and retrieval by introducing a classical control bit, which controls whether or not we add a perturbation in the SYK system. The mutual information between the bath and the control bit shows a positive jump at the Page time, indicating that the entanglement wedge of the bath includes an island in the holographic bulk.