Black hole interior and time-like entanglement entropy
- 1School of Science, Tianjin University
Abstract
A bstract : We investigate the possibility of using holographic time-like entanglement entropy (TEE) to probe the black hole interior. We choose the complex-valued extreme surface mixing spatial and temporal segments as one concrete example from various holographic candidates. In Schwarzschild-AdS black holes, we demonstrate that the TEE of time-like strips in such holographic proposal exhibits linear growth at large temporal widths, possesses a physically significant imaginary part, and obeys a time-like entanglement first-law-like relation for its real part. By analyzing charged, scalar-hairy black holes, we find this geometric TEE detects a hidden “causal phase transition” separating Type-I and Type-II interiors. We identify a critical temporal width τ c serving as a bulk diagnostic, potentially acting as a boundary order parameter: for strips narrower than τ c , the system enters a distinct phase dominated purely by time-like contributions up to an emergent effective scale; conversely, for strips wider than τ c , space-like entanglement re-emerges. Notably, a Cauchy horizon drives τ c to infinity, leading to a pure time-like entanglement phase. These results suggest that the TEE may supply a novel boundary quantum-information measure to detect structure hidden inside the black hole and suggests a deep connection between TEE and cosmic censorship.
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BibTeX
@article{li2026black,
title = {{Black hole interior and time-like entanglement entropy}},
author = {Zi-Hao Li and Run-Qiu Yang},
journal = {Journal of High Energy Physics},
year = {2026},
month = oct,
doi = {10.1007/jhep10(2026)012},
url = {https://link.springer.com/10.1007/JHEP10(2026)012},
note = {CC BY 4.0},
}
RIS
TY - JOUR
TI - Black hole interior and time-like entanglement entropy
AU - Zi-Hao Li
AU - Run-Qiu Yang
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/10/01
JO - Journal of High Energy Physics
DO - 10.1007/jhep10(2026)012
UR - https://link.springer.com/10.1007/JHEP10(2026)012
AB - A bstract : We investigate the possibility of using holographic time-like entanglement entropy (TEE) to probe the black hole interior. We choose the complex-valued extreme surface mixing spatial and temporal segments as one concrete example from various holographic candidates. In Schwarzschild-AdS black holes, we demonstrate that the TEE of time-like strips in such holographic proposal exhibits linear growth at large temporal widths, possesses a physically significant imaginary part, and obeys a time-like entanglement first-law-like relation for its real part. By analyzing charged, scalar-hairy black holes, we find this geometric TEE detects a hidden “causal phase transition” separating Type-I and Type-II interiors. We identify a critical temporal width τ c serving as a bulk diagnostic, potentially acting as a boundary order parameter: for strips narrower than τ c , the system enters a distinct phase dominated purely by time-like contributions up to an emergent effective scale; conversely, for strips wider than τ c , space-like entanglement re-emerges. Notably, a Cauchy horizon drives τ c to infinity, leading to a pure time-like entanglement phase. These results suggest that the TEE may supply a novel boundary quantum-information measure to detect structure hidden inside the black hole and suggests a deep connection between TEE and cosmic censorship.
SN - 1029-8479
ER -