Non-Monogamy of Spatio-Temporal Correlations and the Black Hole Information Loss Paradox

Entropy (Basel). 2020 Feb 18;22(2):228. doi: 10.3390/e22020228.

Abstract

Pseudo-density matrices are a generalisation of quantum states and do not obey monogamy of quantum correlations. Could this be the solution to the paradox of information loss during the evaporation of a black hole? In this paper we discuss this possibility, providing a theoretical proposal to extend quantum theory with these pseudo-states to describe the statistics arising in black-hole evaporation. We also provide an experimental demonstration of this theoretical proposal, using a simulation in optical regime, that tomographically reproduces the correlations of the pseudo-density matrix describing this physical phenomenon.

Keywords: black hole information loss; entanglement monogamy; pseudo-density matrix.