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Entanglement entropy of coherent intertwiner in loop quantum gravity

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2024-03-28 v1

Abstract

In this paper, we carry out the entanglement calculations on the coherent intertwiners. We first consider the entanglement introduced by the group-averaging of the tensor-product type intertwiner on a four-valents vertex. The result shows that the entanglement is determined by the probability distribution of recoupling spin, and this probability distribution is a well-behaved peak for the highest (and lowest) weight states. Further, we calculated explicitly the entanglement on gauge-invariant coherent intertwiner with four legs. Our numerical results show that the shape of the semiclassical polyhedron described by the coherent intertwiner can be related to the entanglement; In other words, the entanglement is controlled by the face-angle of the semiclassical polyhedron. Finally, we extend our analytical calculation to the coherent intertwiners with arbitrary number of legs.

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@article{arxiv.2403.18020,
  title  = {Entanglement entropy of coherent intertwiner in loop quantum gravity},
  author = {Gaoping Long and Qian Chen and Jinsong Yang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2403.18020},
  year   = {2024}
}

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25 pages, 12 figures