Entanglement entropy of squeezed vacua on a lattice
High Energy Physics - Theory
2015-11-04 v1 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Quantum Physics
Abstract
We derive a formula for the entanglement entropy of squeezed states on a lattice in terms of the complex structure J. The analysis involves the identification of squeezed states with group-theoretical coherent states of the symplectic group and the relation between the coset Sp(2N,R)/Isot(J_0) and the space of complex structures. We present two applications of the new formula: (i) we derive the area law for the ground state of a scalar field on a generic lattice in the limit of small speed of sound, (ii) we compute the rate of growth of the entanglement entropy in the presence of an instability and show that it is bounded from above by the Kolmogorov-Sinai rate.
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@article{arxiv.1507.01567,
title = {Entanglement entropy of squeezed vacua on a lattice},
author = {Eugenio Bianchi and Lucas Hackl and Nelson Yokomizo},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1507.01567},
year = {2015}
}
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35 pages, 2 figures