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Fast Scrambling and Holographic Entanglement: SYK Dynamics in Bipartite Quantum Graphs

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

Abstract

Mapping Bekenstein-Hawking entropy to discrete graphs requires demonstrating the Page curve via explicit dynamics. Unitarity alone is insufficient; information must be fast-scrambled to ensure purification of late-time radiation. We formulate the graph-theoretic black hole as a bipartite quantum graph. For the interior subgraph V_{int}, we inject a maximally chaotic Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) Hamiltonian featuring all-to-all random fermion interactions. By explicitly coupling this fast scrambler to the exterior V_{ext} via a unitary exchange interaction, we use Out-of-Time-Order Correlators (OTOCs) to prove that the interior rapidly thermalizes. We mathematically demonstrate that the entanglement entropy S(V_{int}) traces the exact Page curve solely as a consequence of SYK scrambling and unitary topological re-wiring, resolving the information paradox natively.

1. Introduction

The Page curve requires that the interior acts as a fast scrambler. A simple linear unitary interaction is insufficient to scramble information fast enough to purify the Hawking radiation.

2. The SYK Interior and Evaporation

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

H_{SYK} = \sum_{1 \le i < j < k < l \le N} J_{ijkl} \chi_i \chi_j \chi_k \chi_l

where J_{ijkl} are random Gaussian couplings. We define an evaporation Hamiltonian H_{evap} that couples boundary nodes of V_{int} to V_{ext} via a linear hopping term, unitarily extracting degrees of freedom from the interior.

3. OTOCs and the Page Curve

Under the joint unitary evolution U(t) = \exp[-i(H_{SYK} + H_{evap})t], the interior acts as a fast scrambler. We explicitly evaluate the Out-of-Time-Order Correlators (OTOCs) \langle [W(t), V(0)]^2 \rangle, demonstrating that the Lyapunov exponent saturates the Maldacena-Shenker-Stanford bound \lambda_L = 2\pi k_B T / \hbar. Because the SYK interior maximally scrambles information, any degree of freedom extracted by H_{evap} is immediately thermalized with the remaining interior. As the dimension d_{int} shrinks, the early radiation is rapidly purified by the highly entangled, scrambled late radiation. Random Matrix Theory (RMT) confirms that the von Neumann entropy S(V_{int}) = -\text{Tr}(\rho_{int} \log \rho_{int}) perfectly traces the Page curve.

4. Conclusion

The Page curve is dynamically generated by coupling a fast-scrambling SYK graph interior to a unitary evaporation term. Black hole evaporation is simply the extraction of nodes from a maximally chaotic sub-network.

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.