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Entanglement in Reggeized Scattering using AdS/CFT

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2019-08-14 v2 High Energy Physics - Theory Nuclear Theory

Abstract

The eikonalized parton-parton scattering amplitude at large s\sqrt{s} and large impact parameter, is dominated by the exchange of a hyperbolic surface in walled AdS. Its analytical continuation yields a worldsheet instanton that is at the origin of the Reggeization of the amplitude and a thermal-like quantum entropy ST{\cal S}_T. We explicitly construct the entangled density matrix following from the exchanged surface, and show that its von-Neumann entanglement entropy SE{\cal S}_E coincides with the thermal-like entropy, i.e. ST=SE{\cal S}_T={\cal S}_E. The ratio of the entanglement entropy to the transverse growth of the exchanged surface is similar to the Bekenstein entropy ratio for a black-hole, with a natural definition of saturation and the on-set of chaos in high energy collisions. The largest eigenvalues of the entangled density matrix obey a cascade equation in rapidity, reminiscent of non-linear QCD evolution of wee-dipoles at low-x and weak coupling. We suggest that the largest eigenvalues describe the probability distributions of wee-quanta at low-x and strong coupling that maybe measurable at present and future pp and ep colliders.

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@article{arxiv.1803.09157,
  title  = {Entanglement in Reggeized Scattering using AdS/CFT},
  author = {Yizhuang Liu and Ismail Zahed},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1803.09157},
  year   = {2019}
}

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10 pages, 8 figures

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