APS March Meeting 2018 Volume 63, Number 1 Monday–Friday, March 5–9, 2018; Los Angeles, California

Session L26: Quantum Foundations I

11:15 AM–2:15 PM, Wednesday, March 7, 2018

LACC Room: 404A



Sponsoring Unit: DQI

Chair: Ravi Kunjwal, Perimeter Inst for Theo Phys



Abstract ID: BAPS.2018.MAR.L26.10



Abstract: L26.00010 : Quantum physics of black holes: A superconducting perspective*

1:27 PM–1:39 PM



Abstract

Presenter:

Sreenath Kizhakkumpurath Manikandan

(Department of physics and astronomy, Univ of Rochester)

Authors:

Sreenath Kizhakkumpurath Manikandan

(Department of physics and astronomy, Univ of Rochester)

Andrew Jordan

(Department of physics and astronomy, Univ of Rochester)

We establish an analogy between superconductor-metal interfaces and the quantum physics of a black hole. We show that the metal-superconductor interface can be thought of as an event horizon and Andreev reflection from the interface is analogous to the Hawking radiation in black holes, giving a unitary description of black hole dynamics. Quantum information transfer can be described with Andreev reflection and a final state projection model similar to Horowitz-Maldacena, and Hayden and Preskill's description of a black hole final state, where the black hole is described as an information mirror. The analogy between Crossed Andreev Reflections and Einstein-Rosen bridges is also discussed. Given these established connections, we conjecture that the final quantum state of a black hole is the Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer ground state wavefunction.

*This work was supported by the John Templeton Foundation, grant ID 58558