scholarly journals Holographic proof of the strong subadditivity of entanglement entropy

2007 ◽  
Vol 76 (10) ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew Headrick ◽  
Tadashi Takayanagi
Keyword(s):  
Entanglement Entropy ◽  
Strong Subadditivity

scholarly journals Mutual information superadditivity and unitarity bounds

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (9) ◽  
Author(s):  
Horacio Casini ◽  
Eduardo Testé ◽  
Gonzalo Torroba
Keyword(s):  
Mutual Information ◽  
Entanglement Entropy ◽  
Markov Property ◽  
Vacuum State ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Long Distance ◽  
Strong Subadditivity ◽  
Conformal Field ◽  
Leading Term ◽  
Free Fields

Abstract We derive the property of strong superadditivity of mutual information arising from the Markov property of the vacuum state in a conformal field theory and strong subadditivity of entanglement entropy. We show this inequality encodes unitarity bounds for different types of fields. These unitarity bounds are precisely the ones that saturate for free fields. This has a natural explanation in terms of the possibility of localizing algebras on null surfaces. A particular continuity property of mutual information characterizes free fields from the entropic point of view. We derive a general formula for the leading long distance term of the mutual information for regions of arbitrary shape which involves the modular flow of these regions. We obtain the general form of this leading term for two spheres with arbitrary orientations in spacetime, and for primary fields of any tensor representation. For free fields we further obtain the explicit form of the leading term for arbitrary regions with boundaries on null cones.

scholarly journals Shape dependence of renormalized holographic entanglement entropy

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 (9) ◽  
Author(s):  
Giorgos Anastasiou ◽  
Javier Moreno ◽  
Rodrigo Olea ◽  
David Rivera-Betancour
Keyword(s):  
Lower Bound ◽  
Entanglement Entropy ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Renormalization Scheme ◽  
Strong Subadditivity ◽  
Shape Dependence ◽  
Holographic Entanglement Entropy ◽  
Curvature Term ◽  
Topological Part ◽  
Willmore Energy

Abstract We study the holographic entanglement entropy of deformed entangling regions in three-dimensional CFTs dual to Einstein-AdS gravity, using a renormalization scheme based on the addition of extrinsic counterterms. In this prescription, when even- dimensional manifolds are considered, the universal contribution to the entanglement entropy is identified as the renormalized volume of the Ryu-Takayanagi hypersurface, which is written as the sum of a topological and a curvature term. It is shown that the change in the renormalized entanglement entropy due to the deformation of the entangling surface is encoded purely in the curvature contribution. In turn, as the topological part is given by the Euler characteristic of the Ryu-Takayanagi surface, it remains shape independent. Exploiting the covariant character of the extrinsic counterterms, we apply the renormalization scheme for the case of deformed entangling regions in AdS4/CFT3, recovering the results found in the literature. Finally, we provide a derivation of the relation between renormalized entanglement entropy and Willmore energy. The presence of a lower bound of the latter makes manifest the relation between the AdS curvature of the Ryu-Takayanagi surface and the strong subadditivity property.

scholarly journals Entanglement entropy: non-Gaussian states and strong coupling

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
José J. Fernández-Melgarejo ◽  
Javier Molina-Vilaplana
Keyword(s):  
Ground State ◽  
Entanglement Entropy ◽  
Energy Functional ◽  
Field Theories ◽  
Quantum Field Theories ◽  
Quantum Field ◽  
Gaussian States ◽  
Strong Subadditivity ◽  
Point Correlation ◽  
Non Gaussian

Abstract In this work we provide a method to study the entanglement entropy for non-Gaussian states that minimize the energy functional of interacting quantum field theories at arbitrary coupling. To this end, we build a class of non-Gaussian variational trial wavefunctionals with the help of exact nonlinear canonical transformations. The calculability bonanza shown by these variational ansatze allows us to compute the entanglement entropy using the prescription for the ground state of free theories. In free theories, the entanglement entropy is determined by the two-point correlation functions. For the interacting case, we show that these two-point correlators can be replaced by their nonperturbatively corrected counterparts. Upon giving some general formulae for general interacting models we calculate the entanglement entropy of half space and compact regions for the ϕ4 scalar field theory in 2D. Finally, we analyze the rôle played by higher order correlators in our results and show that strong subadditivity is satisfied.

scholarly journals AdS/CFT and strong subadditivity of entanglement entropy

2007 ◽  
Vol 2007 (02) ◽  
pp. 042-042 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tomoyoshi Hirata ◽  
Tadashi Takayanagi
Keyword(s):  
Entanglement Entropy ◽  
Strong Subadditivity

scholarly journals Linear growth of the entanglement entropy for quadratic Hamiltonians and arbitrary initial states

2022 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Giacomo De Palma ◽  
Lucas Hackl
Keyword(s):  
Entanglement Entropy ◽  
Quantum Systems ◽  
Von Neumann Entropy ◽  
Classical Dynamics ◽  
Initial State ◽  
Von Neumann ◽  
Strong Subadditivity ◽  
Periodically Driven ◽  
Initial States ◽  
The Right

We prove that the entanglement entropy of any pure initial state of a bipartite bosonic quantum system grows linearly in time with respect to the dynamics induced by any unstable quadratic Hamiltonian. The growth rate does not depend on the initial state and is equal to the sum of certain Lyapunov exponents of the corresponding classical dynamics. This paper generalizes the findings of [Bianchi et al., JHEP 2018, 25 (2018)], which proves the same result in the special case of Gaussian initial states. Our proof is based on a recent generalization of the strong subadditivity of the von Neumann entropy for bosonic quantum systems [De Palma et al., arXiv:2105.05627]. This technique allows us to extend our result to generic mixed initial states, with the squashed entanglement providing the right generalization of the entanglement entropy. We discuss several applications of our results to physical systems with (weakly) interacting Hamiltonians and periodically driven quantum systems, including certain quantum field theory models.

scholarly journals Defects and perturbation

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Enrico M. Brehm
Keyword(s):  
Entanglement Entropy ◽  
Topological Defects ◽  
Field Theories ◽  
Two Dimensional ◽  
Conformal Field Theories ◽  
Minimal Models ◽  
Conformal Field

Abstract We investigate perturbatively tractable deformations of topological defects in two-dimensional conformal field theories. We perturbatively compute the change in the g-factor, the reflectivity, and the entanglement entropy of the conformal defect at the end of these short RG flows. We also give instances of such flows in the diagonal Virasoro and Super-Virasoro Minimal Models.

scholarly journals Entanglement entropy in low-energy field theories at a finite chemical potential

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ivan Morera ◽  
Irénée Frérot ◽  
Artur Polls ◽  
Bruno Juliá-Díaz
Keyword(s):  
Chemical Potential ◽  
Entanglement Entropy ◽  
Low Energy ◽  
Field Theories ◽  
Energy Field

scholarly journals Quantum information probes of charge fractionalization in large-N gauge theories

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Brandon S. DiNunno ◽  
Niko Jokela ◽  
Juan F. Pedraza ◽  
Arttu Pönni
Keyword(s):  
Degrees Of Freedom ◽  
Gauge Theories ◽  
Entanglement Entropy ◽  
Coarse Grained ◽  
Strongly Coupled ◽  
Information Theoretic ◽  
Large N ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Charge Fractionalization ◽  
Electric Flux

Abstract We study in detail various information theoretic quantities with the intent of distinguishing between different charged sectors in fractionalized states of large-N gauge theories. For concreteness, we focus on a simple holographic (2 + 1)-dimensional strongly coupled electron fluid whose charged states organize themselves into fractionalized and coherent patterns at sufficiently low temperatures. However, we expect that our results are quite generic and applicable to a wide range of systems, including non-holographic. The probes we consider include the entanglement entropy, mutual information, entanglement of purification and the butterfly velocity. The latter turns out to be particularly useful, given the universal connection between momentum and charge diffusion in the vicinity of a black hole horizon. The RT surfaces used to compute the above quantities, though, are largely insensitive to the electric flux in the bulk. To address this deficiency, we propose a generalized entanglement functional that is motivated through the Iyer-Wald formalism, applied to a gravity theory coupled to a U(1) gauge field. We argue that this functional gives rise to a coarse grained measure of entanglement in the boundary theory which is obtained by tracing over (part) of the fractionalized and cohesive charge degrees of freedom. Based on the above, we construct a candidate for an entropic c-function that accounts for the existence of bulk charges. We explore some of its general properties and their significance, and discuss how it can be used to efficiently account for charged degrees of freedom across different energy scales.

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