Entanglement swapping in black holes: restoring predictability

Abstract

Hawking's black hole evaporation process suggests that we may need to choose between quantum unitarity and other basic physical principles such as no-signalling, entanglement monogamy, and the equivalence principle. We here provide a quantum model for Hawking pair black hole evaporation within which these principles are all respected. The model does not involve exotic new physics, but rather uses quantum theory and general relativity. The black hole and radiation are in a joint superposition of different energy states at any stage of the evaporation process. In the particular branch where the black hole mass is 0, the radiation state is pure and one-to-one with the initial state forming the black hole. Thus there is no information loss upon full evaporation. The original Hawking's pair entanglement between infalling and outgoing particles gets transferred to outgoing particles via entanglement swapping, without violation of no-signalling or the entanglement's monogamy. The final state after the full black hole evaporation is pure, without loss of information, violation of monogamy, or the equivalence principle.

arXiv comment14 pages, 5 figures

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