Black holes, information, and decoherence
Abstract
We investigate the experimental capabilities required to test whether black holes destroy information. We show that an experiment capable of illuminating the information puzzle must necessarily be able to detect or manipulate macroscopic superpositions (i.e., Everett branches). Hence, it could also address the fundamental question of decoherence versus wave function collapse.
- Publication:
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Physical Review D
- Pub Date:
- June 2009
- DOI:
- 10.1103/PhysRevD.79.124037
- arXiv:
- arXiv:0903.2258
- Bibcode:
- 2009PhRvD..79l4037H
- Keywords:
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- 04.70.Dy;
- 03.65.Ta;
- 03.65.Ud;
- 03.65.Yz;
- Quantum aspects of black holes evaporation thermodynamics;
- Foundations of quantum mechanics;
- measurement theory;
- Entanglement and quantum nonlocality;
- Decoherence;
- open systems;
- quantum statistical methods;
- General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology;
- High Energy Physics - Theory;
- Quantum Physics
- E-Print:
- 7 pages, revtex