PIRSA:15050118

Electric fields and quantum wormholes

(2015). Electric fields and quantum wormholes. Perimeter Institute. https://pirsa.org/15050118

Electric fields and quantum wormholes. Perimeter Institute, May. 08, 2015, https://pirsa.org/15050118 

          @misc{ pirsa_PIRSA:15050118,
            doi = {10.48660/15050118},
            url = {https://pirsa.org/15050118},
            author = {},
            keywords = {Quantum Fields and Strings},
            language = {en},
            title = {Electric fields and quantum wormholes},
            publisher = {Perimeter Institute},
            year = {2015},
            month = {may},
            note = {PIRSA:15050118 see, \url{https://pirsa.org}}
          }
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A classical Einstein-Rosen bridge changes the topology of spacetime,allowing (for example) electric field lines to penetrate it. It has recently been suggested that in the bulk of a theory of quantum gravity, the quantum entanglement of ordinary perturbative quanta should be viewed as creating a quantum version of an Einstein-Rosen bridge between the quanta, or a “quantum wormhole”. For this “ER=EPR” correspondence to make sense it then seems necessary for a quantum wormhole to allow (for example) electric field lines to penetrate it. I will discuss (within low-energy effective field theory) whether or not this happens.