Equation 87 · The Bit Comes Back Before the Bearing
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the scrambling time, and it is worth deriving in real units rather than only in the abstract.
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is exact [ 4 ] . Fixing m=2 (a single qubit) and letting n — the effective size of everything else the qubit could be entangled with — grow gives = 0.5095 nats, = 0.6465 nats, and = 0.6814 nats, closing in on the ceiling 2 = 0.6931 nats. The residual gap to that ceiling shrinks by a factor of 3.94 when n quadruples from 4 to 16 , and by 3.98 when it quadruples again from 16 to 64 — converging, as more radiation-sized dimension is added two qubits at a time, on a clean factor of four per doubling of collected qubits, or two per single qubit. This is an exact, hand-computable corroboration of the folklore “each extra…
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is exact [ 4 ] . Fixing m=2 (a single qubit) and letting n — the effective size of everything else the qubit could be entangled with — grow gives = 0.5095 nats, = 0.6465 nats, and = 0.6814 nats, closing in on the ceiling 2 = 0.6931 nats. The residual gap to that ceiling shrinks by a factor of 3.94 when n quadruples from 4 to 16 , and by 3.98 when it quadruples again from 16 to 64 — converging, as more radiation-sized dimension is added two qubits at a time, on a clean factor of four per doubling of collected qubits, or two per single qubit. This is an exact, hand-computable corroboration of the folklore “each extra collected qubit roughly halves what is left to recover,” not a re-derivation of Hayden and Preskill’s original bound, and it is why depends on only logarithmically: driving from 10^{-1} to 10^{-9} costs on the order of thirty extra qubits of radiation, a negligible addition to for any astrophysically sized hole. None of this requires the hole’s dynamics to be literally Haar-random for an unbounded time; Harrow and Low showed that circuits of only polynomial depth already approximate the Haar distribution’s first two moments closely enough for arguments like this one to apply [ 14 ] .
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