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Entanglement in Typical States of Chern-Simons Theory

High Energy Physics - Theory 2025-07-24 v2 Strongly Correlated Electrons Quantum Physics

Abstract

We compute various averages over bulk geometries of quantum states prepared by the Chern-Simons path integral, for any level kk and compact simple gauge group GG. We do so by carefully summing over all topologically distinct bulk geometries which have nn disjoint boundary tori and a decomposition into space×\timestime of fixed spatial topology. We find that to leading order in the complexity of the state, the typical state contains many types of multiparty entanglement, proving a conjecture of Balasubramanian et al. Additionally, we compute an averaged wave function which captures the leading order statistics of boundary observables in the nn torus Chern-Simons Hilbert space.

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@article{arxiv.2503.21894,
  title  = {Entanglement in Typical States of Chern-Simons Theory},
  author = {Charlie Cummings},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2503.21894},
  year   = {2025}
}

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34 pages, 3 figures. v2: published version