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We analyze the amount of information that can be sent through the traversable wormholes of Gao, Jafferis, and Wall. Although we find that the wormhole is open for a proper time shorter than the Planck time, the transmission of a signal through the wormhole can sometimes remain within the semiclassical regime. For black holes with horizons of order the AdS radius, information cannot be reliably sent through the wormhole. However, black holes with horizon radius much larger than the AdS radius do allow for the transmission of a number of quanta of order the horizon area in AdS units. More information can be sent through the wormhole by increasing the number of light fields contributing to the negative energy. Our bulk computations agree with a boundary analysis based on quantum teleportation.
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Freivogel, B., Galante, D.A., Nikolakopoulou, D. et al. Traversable wormholes in AdS and bounds on information transfer. J. High Energ. Phys. 2020, 50 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP01(2020)050
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