QUANTUM gravitational effects are usually ignored in calculations of the formation and evolution of black holes. The justification for this is that the radius of curvature of space-time outside the event horizon is very large compared to the Planck length (Għ/c3)1/2 ≈ 10−33 cm, the length scale on which quantum fluctuations of the metric are expected to be of order unity. This means that the energy density of particles created by the gravitational field is small compared to the space-time curvature. Even though quantum effects may be small locally, they may still, however, add up to produce a significant effect over the lifetime of the Universe ≈ 1017 s which is very long compared to the Planck time ≈ 10−43 s. The purpose of this letter is to show that this indeed may be the case: it seems that any black hole will create and emit particles such as neutrinos or photons at just the rate that one would expect if the black hole was a body with a temperature of (κ/2π) (ħ/2k) ≈ 10−6 (M/M)K where κ is the surface gravity of the black hole1. As a black hole emits this thermal radiation one would expect it to lose mass. This in turn would increase the surface gravity and so increase the rate of emission. The black hole would therefore have a finite life of the order of 1071 (M/M)−3 s. For a black hole of solar mass this is much longer than the age of the Universe. There might, however, be much smaller black holes which were formed by fluctuations in the early Universe2. Any such black hole of mass less than 1015 g would have evaporated by now. Near the end of its life the rate of emission would be very high and about 1030 erg would be released in the last 0.1 s. This is a fairly small explosion by astronomical standards but it is equivalent to about 1 million 1 Mton hydrogen bombs. It is often said that nothing can escape from a black hole. But in 1974, Stephen Hawking realized that, owing to quantum effects, black holes should emit particles with a thermal distribution of energies — as if the black hole had a temperature inversely proportional to its mass. In addition to putting black-hole thermodynamics on a firmer footing, this discovery led Hawking to postulate 'black hole explosions', as primordial black holes end their lives in an accelerating release of energy.

Black Hole Explosions

13. 벼잎선충의 약제처리 방법별 방제 효과

We study information retrieval from evaporating black holes, assuming that the internal dynamics of a black hole is unitary and rapidly mixing, and assuming that the retriever has unlimited control over the emitted Hawking radiation. If the evaporation of the black hole has already proceeded past the ``half-way'' point, where half of the initial entropy has been radiated away, then additional quantum information deposited in the black hole is revealed in the Hawking radiation very rapidly. Information deposited prior to the half-way point remains concealed until the half-way point, and then emerges quickly. These conclusions hold because typical local quantum circuits are efficient encoders for quantum error-correcting codes that nearly achieve the capacity of the quantum erasure channel. Our estimate of a black hole's information retention time, based on speculative dynamical assumptions, is just barely compatible with the black hole complementarity hypothesis.

http://absimage.aps.org/image/MAR08/MWS_MAR08-2007-003180.pdf

Black holes as mirrors: quantum information in random subsystems

A proposed network of atomic clocks—using non-local entangled states—could achieve unprecedented stability and accuracy in time-keeping, as well as being secure against internal or external attack.

http://absimage.aps.org/image/DAMOP14/MWS_DAMOP14-2014-000545.pdf

A quantum network of clocks

A perspective on multiparameter quantum metrology: from theoretical tools to applications in quantum imaging

The authors find the optimal setup of distributed quantum sensing using multimode Gaussian states for estimating the average value of phases encoded in the distributed modes. The results demonstrate that multimode entanglement plays an important role in the precise estimation of a global parameter.

Optimal distributed quantum sensing using Gaussian states

Masking quantum information, which is impossible without randomness as a resource, is a task that encodes quantum information into the bipartite quantum state while forbidding local parties from accessing that information. In this paper, we disprove the geometric conjecture about unitarily maskable states [Modi, Pati, Sen, and Sen, Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 230501 (2018)], and make an algebraic analysis of quantum masking. First, we show a general result of quantum channel mixing that a subchannel's mixing probability should be suppressed if its classical capacity is larger than the mixed channel's capacity. This constraint combined with the well-known information conservation law, a law that does not exist in classical information theories, gives a lower bound of randomness cost of masking quantum information as a monotone decreasing function of evenness of information distribution. This result provides a consistency test for various scenarios of fast scrambling conjecture on the black-hole evaporation process. Our results are robust to incompleteness of quantum masking.

Randomness cost of masking quantum information and the information conservation law

A commitment scheme allows one to commit to hidden information while keeping its value recoverable when needed. Despite considerable efforts, an unconditionally and perfectly secure bit commitment has been proven impossible both classically and quantum-mechanically. The situation is similar when committing to qubits instead of classical bits as implied in the no-masking theorem [K. Modi et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. {\bf 120}, 230501 (2018)]. In this Letter, we find that circumvention of the no-masking theorem is possible with the aid of classical randomness. Based on this, we construct an unconditionally secure quit-commitment scheme that utilises any kind of universal quantum maskers with optimal randomness consumption, which is distributed by a trusted initializer. This shows that randomness, which is normally considered only to obscure the information, can benefit a quantum secure communication scheme. This result can be generalised to an arbitrary dimensional system.

Unconditionally Secure Qubit Commitment Scheme Using Quantum Maskers

Recently, a teleportation scheme using a two-mode squeezed state to teleport a photonic qubit, so called a “hybrid” approach, has been suggested and experimentally demonstrated as a candidate to overcome the limitations of all-optical quantum information processing. We find, however, that there exists the upper bound of fidelity when teleporting a photonic qubit via a two-mode squeezed channel under a lossy environment. The increase of photon loss decreases this bound, and teleportation better than this limit is impossible even when the squeezing degree of the teleportation channel becomes infinity. Our result indicates that the hybrid scheme can be valid for fault-tolerant quantum computing only when the photon loss rate can be suppressed under a certain limit.

Limitations of teleporting a qubit via a two-mode squeezed state

We find and investigate the optimal scheme of quantum distributed Gaussian sensing for estimation of the average of independent phase shifts. We show that the ultimate sensitivity is achievable by using an entangled symmetric Gaussian state, which can be generated using a single-mode squeezed vacuum state, a beam-splitter network, and homodyne detection on each output mode in the absence of photon loss. Interestingly, the maximal entanglement of a symmetric Gaussian state is not optimal although the presence of entanglement is advantageous as compared to the case using a product symmetric Gaussian state. It is also demonstrated that when loss occurs, homodyne detection and other types of Gaussian measurements compete for better sensitivity, depending on the amount of loss and properties of a probe state. None of them provide the ultimate sensitivity, indicating that non-Gaussian measurements are required for optimality in lossy cases. Our general results obtained through a full-analytical investigation will offer important perspectives to the future theoretical and experimental study for quantum distributed Gaussian sensing.

Seok Hyung Lie

Papers

Optimal distributed quantum sensing using Gaussian states

Randomness cost of masking quantum information and the information conservation law

Unconditionally Secure Qubit Commitment Scheme Using Quantum Maskers

Limitations of teleporting a qubit via a two-mode squeezed state

Optimal Distributed quantum sensing using Gaussian states