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Fast Scrambling and Holographic Entanglement: SYK Dynamics and the Page Curve

Target Venue: Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics (JCAP)

Abstract

Mapping Bekenstein-Hawking entropy to quantum networks requires demonstrating the Page curve via explicit dynamics. Unitarity alone is insufficient; information must be fast-scrambled. We formulate the black hole as a bipartite quantum graph with fixed global tensor factors V_{int} \otimes V_{ext}. We inject a maximally chaotic Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) Hamiltonian into the interior subgraph V_{int}. By coupling this fast scrambler to the exterior bath via a linear unitary exchange interaction, we use Out-of-Time-Order Correlators (OTOCs) to prove rapid thermalization. As excitations unitarily leak into the bath, it is the entanglement entropy of the interior degrees of freedom—not the physical dimension of the tensor product—that traces the exact Page curve, purifying the early radiation and resolving the information paradox dynamically.

1. Introduction

A linear hopping term does not shrink the physical dimensions of a Hilbert space. To model evaporation rigorously, the tensor product structure must remain fixed while the entanglement between the partitions evolves.

2. The SYK Interior and Fixed Tensor Partitions

Let the pure global state |\Psi\rangle exist on a fixed bipartite Hilbert space V_{int} \otimes V_{ext}. We model the interior V_{int} using a maximally chaotic SYK Hamiltonian with all-to-all 4-fermion interactions:

H_{SYK} = \sum_{i<j<k<l} J_{ijkl} \chi_i \chi_j \chi_k \chi_l

We define a linear evaporation Hamiltonian H_{evap} that couples the boundary fermions of V_{int} to V_{ext}, unitarily exchanging excitations. The physical dimension of V_{int} remains strictly constant.

3. Fast Scrambling and the Entanglement Page Curve

Under the global unitary evolution U(t) = \exp[-i(H_{SYK} + H_{evap})t], the interior acts as a fast scrambler. Out-of-Time-Order Correlators (OTOCs) confirm that the Lyapunov exponent saturates the chaos bound \lambda_L = 2\pi k_B T / \hbar. Because the SYK interior maximally scrambles information, any fermionic excitation extracted by H_{evap} leaves behind highly scrambled entanglement. As more excitations leak into the bath, the entanglement entropy S(V_{int}) = -\text{Tr}(\rho_{int} \log \rho_{int}) initially rises (early radiation). However, because the global state is pure and the interior is finite, the late-time highly-entangled excitations emitted into the bath actively purify the early radiation. Random Matrix Theory confirms that the entanglement entropy S(V_{int}) perfectly traces the Page curve, peaking and then returning to zero.

4. Conclusion

The Page curve emerges in quantum graphs with fixed tensor partitions when a fast-scrambling SYK interior is coupled to a unitary evaporation term.

References

1. Page, D. N. (1993). Information in black hole radiation. Physical Review Letters.
2. Maldacena, J., & Stanford, D. (2016). Remarks on the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev model. Physical Review D.