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Defect extremal surfaces for entanglement negativity

High Energy Physics - Theory 2024-05-10 v1

Abstract

We propose a doubly holographic version of the semi-classical island formula for the entanglement negativity in the framework of the defect AdS/BCFT correspondence where the AdS bulk contains a defect conformal matter theory. In this context, we propose a defect extremal surface (DES) formula for computing the entanglement negativity modified by the contribution from the defect matter theory on the end-of-the-world brane. The equivalence of the DES proposal and the semi-classical island formula for the entanglement negativity is demonstrated in AdS3_3/BCFT2_2 framework. Furthermore, in the time-dependent AdS3_3/BCFT2_2 scenarios involving eternal black holes in the lower dimensional effective description, we investigate the time evolution of the entanglement negativity through the DES and the island formulae and obtain the analogues of the Page curves.

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@article{arxiv.2205.07905,
  title  = {Defect extremal surfaces for entanglement negativity},
  author = {Debarshi Basu and Himanshu Parihar and Vinayak Raj and Gautam Sengupta},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2205.07905},
  year   = {2024}
}

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45 pages, 25 figures

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