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The Fundamental Holographic Uncertainty Principle
and its Primary Applications
Koustubh Kabe
Department of Mathematics, Gogte Institute of Technology, Udyambag,
Belgaum (Belgavi) – 590 008, Karnataka, India
and
Department of Physics, Lokmanya Tilak Bhavan, University of Mumbai, Vidyanagari,
Kalina Campus, Santacruz (East), Mumbai – 400 098, India
E-mail address:
[email protected]
ABSTRACT
The fundamental holographic principle is first proposed, then demonstrated in its validity and
viability through a thought experiment and then finally derived. The Heisenberg uncertainty relations
are shown to follow from this fundamental relation. The quantum blackhole entropy is then
demonstrated using this holographic uncertainty relation along with the application of the Landauer’s
principle for the thermodynamic erasure of a bit yielding a formula with a logarithmic correction. The
blackhole entropy is found to be half the value normally delivered by any other method. So, it is
proposed that there is a real relevant physical horizon at the twice the Schwarzschild radius dubbed the
holographic information geometric horizon.
Keywords: holographic principle; holographic uncertainty principle; Heisenberg uncertainty principle;
Landauer’s Principle; blackhole entropy; loop quantum gravity; area operator; quantum geometry;
general relativity; corrected blackhole horizon
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1. INTRODUCTION
The holographic principle [1] is the fundamental principle in physics. It’s statement
that data in the bulk of the space can be described by the data on the boundary of that space.
So, based on this premise, Verlinde [2] showed that gravity is an entropic force. However, his
derivation of Einstein’s General Relativity (GR) was not palpable to the author and so in [3],
the author in trying to give an alternative approach based purely on information and spacetime
geometry and making minimum of assumptions ended up generating four laws of statistical
geometrodynamics and a formula relating boundary mean curvature and geometrodynamic
probability. There was no assumptions that advocated any theory such as string theory or D-pbranes and M-theory or Loop Quantum Gravity and spin networks, etc. This enabled the
theory to be amenable to the adoption of any of the above approaches in modern theoretical
physics. This was just a general scheme. Now, a key test follows: can the uncertainty
principle in the bulk space, so important to the whole edifice of quantum physics and certainly
to the whole of physics itself, be derived from the holographic principle? The paper written
here investigates that and more. First, an uncertainty in the bulk is also a physical data and
hence by the holographic principle, can best be described by some kind of uncertainty on the
boundary surface of the bulk space. Next, we make the following observation: the only
observables on the boundary surface are the area and the number of information.bits. For the
number of information bits we can take the familiar number operator
in quantum
mechanics. For the area, Loop Quantum Gravity (LQG) gives us a linear operator for area
which predicts a fundamental discreteness of quantum geometry. Now, the theory of LQG is
mathematically rigorous and consistent and so what is true in the Ashtekar-IshamLewandowski measure format should be true here as well for the holographic boundary
surface. But we need a physical justification for this; some sort of physical realistic
demonstration. So, we consider a thought experiment.
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It is our common experience that the area and the number of pixels or in the more
fundamental case the information bits are not mutually compatible. The present work makes
an endeavor to derive the most fundamental uncertainty relation on the basis of this
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experience and deem it rightly to be the case for the holographic surface enclosing a bulk
space. The realm of quantum mechanics in which the Heisenberg uncertainty relations hold, is
actually a part of a more grand picture – that of the fundamental uncertainty on the horizon
between a geometric quantity and an information theoretic, but, combinatorial quantity.
2. 1. A THOUGHT EXPERIMENT ON THE TELEVISION TUBE
Consider a television tube. When we look at the picture on it we see a clearly
demarked and classical picture. Looking closer towards the grids we get a certain blurred
view. Looking at the pixel gives the number but not the area due to the blurred effect. The
area is determined by the correct demarcation of the contours in the picture and the picture
becomes perfectly visible. The number of bits becomes indeterminate in this case. The area is
thus conjugate to the number of bits. In other words, there is an uncertainty between area and
the number of bits. This uncertainty in area
and the bit number
is quantum gravitational
in nature as there fundamental discreteness in area spectrum is Planckian and the fact used by
Verlinde that one bit occupies a Planck area of surface for information. How does the
quantum gravity affect the bulk so that the fundamental uncertainty on the holographic
surface delivers a Heisenberg uncertainty in the bulk space? We shall address this question
shortly. We now sum our arguments of the thought experiment by shaping them into the exact
statement of the holographic uncertainty principle, as
.
(1)
2. 2. DERIVATION OF THE FUNDAMENTAL HOLOGRAPHIC UNCERTAINTY
PRINCIPLE
First, let us look at the LQG area operator. For a
̂
√∑
,
, it is defined as
,
(2)
where, is the Barbero-Immirzi parameter. For our purposes of information bits, we take a
simpler operator for area as
̂
√
.
(3)
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Here, the quantum number, , is the bit geometry quantum number. It is easy to see that
this area is also a Ashtekar-Isham-Lewandowski compatible operator since it will deliver area
eigenvalues on the holographic surface which are gauge invariant or Dirac observables. The
measure for (3) is simply a numerically or scale transformed version of the LQG AshtekarLewandowski measure defined for (2). It is also easy to verify that the area operator defined
by (3) is a linear operator.
Next, take creation and annihilation operators
and
respectively for creation and
annihilation of an information bit on the holographic surface. Then, the product
jointly delivers the number operator
taken
for the information bit. The area and the number of bits
on the holographic screen w.r.t. the area containing the information bits have a mutual
exclusivity. It is however, Planck scale in nature of the individual dispersion. To obtain an
explicit and exact inequality, we must call upon the general formalism of quantum mechanics
and apply it to the holographic screen.
First, we postulate the following propositions:
For every bit of information on the holographic surface, there exists a hermitian/ selfadjoint wavefunction. It is a position independent function. It depends only on the
topological and global geometric properties of the holographic surface. As such, the
Chern-Simons term is also lower dimensional and topological. So, a Chern-Simons term
involving a connection on the holographic surface,
qubit function
. Let
is a good argument for the
∫
be the Chern-Simons actional; thus,
is a good path integral representation of
. The bit dynamics is thus global.
1. The bits on the holographic surface are background independent and being CS global
they observe non-locality.
2. There exist two prime linear self adjoint operators viz., area
give complete information of the bit.
̂ and number ̂ which
3. The operators ̂ and ̂ are mutually exclusive and have Planck scale dispersions w.r.t. the
bit measurement on the holographic screen. They obey eq (1), viz.,
It is precisely this inequality that we wish to prove.
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PROOF: Now, for any operator , the mean value of the product
, for by definition of
is never negative i.e.,
,
̅̅̅̅̅
∫
∫
We take this general operator
{
}
∫
∫|
|
(4)
as the our area operator itself from now on. We now
deduce inequalities referring to the mean values of two real operators – area,
– inequalities which lead to the holographic uncertainty relation.
number operator,
From the definition of
∫
∫
that is to say
, it follows on multiplication by that
(5)
. More generally, we can have
.
Since,
and
and bit
(6)
are real, and for
, then
̅̅̅̅̅̅̅̅̅̅̅̅̅̅̅̅̅̅̅̅̅̅̅̅̅̅
(7)
or
̅̅̅̅̅̅̅̅̅̅̅̅̅̅̅̅̅̅̅̅̅̅̅̅̅
̅̅̅
̅̅̅̅̅̅
̅̅̅̅̅̅̅̅̅̅̅̅̅̅
(8)
From this it follows that the average of the commutator
is purely imaginary.
The minimum of the last expression occurs when
̅̅̅̅̅̅̅̅̅̅̅̅̅
(9)
̅̅̅̅
and is equal to
̅̅̅
Hence,
̅̅̅̅̅̅̅̅̅̅̅̅̅
(10)
̅̅̅̅
̅̅̅ ̅̅̅
̅̅̅̅̅̅̅̅̅̅̅̅̅̅
then
̅ and
Now, replace
and
(11)
by
̅
̅
and the preceding equation gives
̅̅̅̅̅̅̅̅ ̅̅̅̅̅̅̅̅
̅
̅̅
̅
̅̅̅̅̅̅̅̅̅̅̅̅̅̅
̅
̅ ̅
(12)
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Now, we take
precise ly as our Holographic surface area operator representation then
is the operator representing the number of information qubits on the Holographic surface
area . Then, we have,
̂̂
̂̂
(14)
Therefore,
̅̅̅̅̅̅̅̅ ̅̅̅̅̅̅̅̅
( )
(15)
For the root mean square deviations
(̅̅̅̅̅̅̅̅)
(̅̅̅̅̅̅̅)
⁄
(16)
⁄
(17)
we therefore must have:
(1)
Hence, the Holographic Uncertainty Principle is demonstrated.
As stated in eq (1). This is the fundamental uncertainty principle on the Holographic surface –
any arbitrary surface enclosing any volume of space containing a quantum system. If this
uncertainty relation – the Holographic Uncertainty Principle – is indeed fundamental, then all
the Heisenberg uncertainty relations should indeed be derivable from this principle. We will
see, in what follows, that this is indeed the case. We therefore proceed to demonstrate the
Heisenberg uncertainty relations from the Holographic Uncertainty Principle given by
inequality (1). Throughout our demonstrations of the various Heisenberg uncertainties we
consider our holographic surface to be something like a Gaussian surface enclosing the
quantum system at the center of the surface – the surface taken in the form of a sphere
. So,
the Heisenberg dispersion occurs when the measurement is made on the quantum system by
an observer anywhere on the surface of the holographic sphere.
2. 3. THE GRAVITATIONAL FORCE LAW OF NEWTON AND THE
FUNDAMENTAL UNCERTAINTY OF HEISENBERG
Now, for the basic Heisenberg uncertainty principle, that exists between canonical
coordinate
and its conjugate momentum , viz.,
(18)
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Consider the inequality (1), namely
(1)
Now, inside the holographic
, we have
bulk of space where in
the non-relativistic limits, we may assume that the Newtonian laws of mechanics and
gravitation are valid. So, for the data described by the srea and the number of bits in the area
on the holographic surface, there is a gravitational force
(19)
in the bulk [2] – primarily a Newtonian one. We prove this as follows:
PROOF: Consider a holographic screen in the form of a spherical surface
this surface
let
, let there be a mass
be the area of the surface
. Let us imagine a point mass
so that
from all the bit grids on the surface
area
. Then the number of bits on
where
. At the center of
on the surface
. Then,
is the equidistance of the mass
taken as a mesh. Let each bit occupy a fundamental
is
(20)
Now, the mass
transiting along the grid or across it will experience a force and a
consequent acceleration . It will thus record a temperature due to the acceleration. This is the
Unruh temperature,
(21)
Now, the energy of the point mass per degree of freedom is
(22)
For
bits,
(23)
Also by the mass-energy equivalence,
(24)
For the mass at the center.
So,
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(26)
(27)
By Newton’s second law of motion,
(28)
Therefore,
(29)
For
eigenvalue for the number operator ̂ and one step of area
Holographic Uncertainty Principle tells us that
. So, finally, setting
fundamental area occupied by one bit of information on the holographic screen
, the
as the
, we have
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or
(19)
Hence, proved.
Now,
we
can
demonstrate
the
PROOF: So now, more precisely, for the mass
Heisenberg
uncertainty
relation
, and the second law of Newton
reading
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(32)
(33)
(34)
(35)
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The
in the above inequality is the circumference of any great circle on
. Then,
is any
typical fiber of the center of the circle. For such a fiber, there is an exact dispersion in the
coordinate
of the mass
at the center. Call this
. Then, upto an isomorphism
(18)
This, delivers us our first of the Heisenberg uncertainty relations.
2. 4. THE HEISENBERG ENERGY-TIME UNCERTAINTY RELATION
Next, we derive the insecure uncertainty between energy
and time viz.,
(38)
PROOF: Lets alter the Holographic Uncertainty Relation (1) once more to give
(39)
Now, the force of Newtonian gravity that is standard and is, as seen above, also delivered by
the Holographic Uncertainty Principle is
(19’)
Therefore, work done by the gravity is
(40)
Thus, the energy
is
(41)
And so
(42)
Now,
(43)
Or,
(44)
or
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Therefore,
(46)
Where we have absorbed the uncertainty
(
into the uncertainty in . Now,
)
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Thus,
(38)
So, we have delivered the second quantum mechanical uncertainty relation the Heisenberg
Energy-Time Uncertainty relation.
2. 5. THE HEISENBERG ANGULAR MOMENTUM – ANGULAR (AZIMUTHAL)
COORDINATE UNCERTAINTY RELATION
Now, for the final basic uncertainty relation
(48)
PROOF: One more time we alter the inequality (1) to get
(39)
The Newtonian gravitational force is
.
Therefore,
(49)
and, therefore
(50)
or
(51)
Now, for a spherical Holographic surface,
(
. So
)
where, we have taken
(52)
⁄
⁄
(53)
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And now we consider the standard relationship between position vector, momentum and
angular momentum, viz.,
in the following way
for quantum dispersions
(54)
Therefore,
(55)
or, finally with
(48)
This proves our final Heisenberg uncertainty relation.
Now, the bit number operator ̂ is due to
where
is the creatot and
s the
annihilator of holographic fundamental topological states that when combined yield a bit on
the horizon or holographic screen. So, if the question is: what is created and annihilated to
yield a bit number 〈 〉 on the holographic boundary, then the answer is probably these
topological information states on the grid – lets call them “toposons”. The annihilation of a
bit conserves it by information conservation which is a necessary theorem in quantum
mechanics and therefore it is quickly created by
spherical surface
to appear elsewhere. The
bubble on the
will thus transit topologically and the bit grids thus maintain the non-
locality on the holographic horizon/ surface.
2. 6. THE QUANTUM BLACKHOLE HORIZON ENTROPY
So, now, by Landauer’s principle, any logically irreversible process of manipulation of
information should result in a corresponding increase of entropy in the information nonbearing degrees of freedom of the holographic system where the actual process is taking
place. Consider therefore a stationary blackhole. On its horizon, we have
(1)
Then,
(39)
The gravitational energy,
⁄ . So,
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(56)
or
(57)
⁄ in the numerator above. Then we have
Take
(58)
or
(59)
(60)
Then, we have
(61)
⁄ , the Schwarzschild radius. So,
For the horizon surface,
(62)
(63)
So, taking
for all intents and purposes as
, the heat evolved in erasing an information
bit.
(64)
Many interpretations are possible. For example,
erasure of
√
is the total energy expended in the
bitson the horizon. Now, alternately from the above section 6,
⁄
so that
√
√
(where
so take
is the Immirzi parameter). Then,
(65)
or, upon integrating we have
Taking
√
(66)
⁄
√
, we have
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This is the Loop Quantum Gravity result for the calculation of the quantum horizon entropy.
Now, we see that the exact Bekenstein-Hawking blackhole entropy relation comes through for
the above choice of the Immirzi parameter. Let us dig a little deeper, viz.,
(68)
(69)
, the heat evolved.
Therefore,
(70)
or
(71)
which we rewrite as
(72)
So, it is clear that the correct formula is delivered when one takes the horizon distance from
the “blackhole center” i.e., the correct physical or thermodynamic horizon radius as
(73)
This is where lies the physical or information thermodynamic horizon or more righteously –
the holographic information geometric horizon.
Then, the holographic uncertainty provides with the formula
(74)
The
is not really directly a quantum correction but a Landauer’s correction. Quantum
geometry has nothing to do here.
However, what about the information bearing degrees of freedom just outside the
horizon? There, the entropy will not have the logarithmic correction and in natural units,
(75)
The surface for which the entropy just loses its logarithmic correction is the Bekenstein
Horizon for, that is where the classical Bekenstein formula holds. This is the horizon
correction discussed by the author [4] in the context of loop quantum gravity.
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So apart from the holographic uncertainty and the inherent Planck scale dispersion of
̂ and ̂, there is no quantum gravity. Only theory is that of irreversible thermodynamics and
the concomitant Landauer’s Principle and the Landauer limit of lower bound on the energy
expended in the thermodynamic erasure of a bit of information viz.,
.
Thus, in our endeavor to derive the blackhole entropy, we have stumbled upon the
notion of a physical or thermodynamic horizon.
3. CONCLUSIONS
We have shown that an uncertainty more fundamental than the Heisenberg
uncertainties exists – on the holographic boundary bounding the 3-space. This 3-space is the
domain of ordinary non-relativistic quantum mechanics and hence of the Heisenberg
uncertainty principle. The uncertainty we have derived or rather proved to exist on the
holographic in nature and information- geometric in character. The Heisenberg uncertainties –
all of them – follow from this fundamental uncertainty on the holographic surface if one
simply takes the holographic surface to be spherical and bounding the quantum system held at
its center. Then all’s left is some set of simple algebraic manipulations. Next, we have
demonstrated the quantum blackhole entropy formula with the logarithmic correction by
simply adopting the Landauer principle for thermodynamic erasure of the information bit
applied to the holographic uncertainty impressed on the blackhole horizon. In a bid to derive
the quantum blackhole entropy the relevant horizon is found not to be the one defined by the
Schwarzschild radius but rather to lie at a radius twice that of the Schwarzschild radius. The
new horizon is the corrected or the physical horizon. We have dubbed this the Holographic
Information Geometric Horizon.
The key idea is that if we derive the most general and fundamental relations which use
a single fundamental compelling principle such as the holographic principle for their
derivation and the relations strive to unify geometry and information – the prime endeavor of
the holographic principle – in a combinatorial way or by bringing in combinatorial quantities,
then the fundamental relations in the bulk of the manifold space bounded by the holographic
surface, seem to be delivered by these holographic fundamental relations. Something like this
has been demonstrated also in [3]. Something like this will genuinely make the physics much
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simpler and we should all come together to make such endeavors – to make physics as simple
as possible.
Acknowledgement
The author wishes to thank Prof. Dr. Tomasz Borowski for his kind help and encouragement. He further wishes
to thank Mr. Deepak Jaiaswal for technical assistance. He wishes to thank Prof. Dr. Michael E. Fisher,
University of Maryland, for exposing him to the wonderful world of the Wilsonian Renormalization Group and
the RG flows and the concomitant theory of the second order phase transitions and the renormalized WilsonFisher fixed point that corresponds to the peaked point in the lambda transition observed universally. Thanks are
also due to Prof. Dr. Jeffrey D. Adams of the Math Department, University of Maryland, for teaching him some
Lie groups and initiating him into the same. He also wishes to thank Prof. Dr. Graham Partis for his timely help
and encouragement. Further, the author wishes to thank Prof. Prabhakar R. Hampiholi and the Chair of the Math
Department Prof. Dr. Sudhir R. Jog, both of the Gogte Institute of Technology (GIT, Belgaum). To, Prof. Dr.
Ravi S. Kulkarni (Professor of Mathematics, Bhaskaracharya Prathisthana, Pune, President of DST-NBHM and
President of the Ramanujan Mathematical Society) for teaching him some extra fresh perspectives on geometry
leading to Topological Dynamics. To Prof. Dr. A. K. Nandakumaran (Professor of Mathematics, IISc,
Bangalore) are due thanks for teaching the author a complete course on Theory of Ordinary and Partial
Differential Equations in a crash course. Finally, he wishes to thank his invaluable parents, Mrs. Supriya
(Mamta) Ajit Kabe and Mr. Ajit Mangeshrao Kabe, for their undying love support and encouragement and their
patience. Last but not the least, the author wishes to thank Prof. Dr. T. Padmanabhan for his wonderful
pedagogical works in the form of such beautiful and lucidly readable books and papers, a few of these gems
being cited here in the references.
Biography
Koustubh Kabe is Dr. Phil (PhD) / Sc.D. in Theoretical Physics. He has published several research papers
investigating into the foundational issues of gravitational physics and the understanding of time and quantum
gravity. He is also working on the problem of gravity and the cosmological implications in the framework of
string theory. He is currently studying Quantum Measurement in addition to all of the above. His research
interests are in the fields of General Theoretical Physics, Physical Mathematics, Theoretical Astrophysics,
Theoretical High-energy Physics, Modern Theoretical Physics, Physical Cosmology, Geometric Analysis,
Number Theory, Algebraic Geometry and lastly, Philosophy, Epistemology and Pedagogy behind Physical
Theories. He is an author of a book titled “Blackhole Dynamic Potentials and Condensed Geometry: New
Perspectives on Blackhole Dynamics and Modern Canonical Quantum General Relativity”.
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