Information Retrieval from a Charge `Trap'

Abstract

We study the model of massless $1+1$ electrodynamics with nonconstant coupling, introduced by Peet, Susskind and Thorlacius as the `charge hole'. But we take the boundary of the strong coupling region to be first timelike, then spacelike for a distance $X$, and then timelike again (to mimic the structure of a black hole). For an incident charge pulse entering this `charge trap' the charge and information get separated. The charge comes out near the endpoint of the singularity. The `information' travels a well localised path through the strong coupling region and comes out later.

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