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Entanglement of purification and disentanglement in CFTs

High Energy Physics - Theory 2019-10-02 v2

Abstract

We study the entanglement of purification (EoP) of subsystem AA and B in conformal field theories (CFTs) stressing on its relation to unitary operations of disentanglement, if the auxiliary subsystem A~\tilde{A} adjoins AA and A~B~\tilde{A}\tilde{B} is the complement of ABAB. We estimate the amount of the disentanglement by using the holographic EoP conjecture as well as the inequality of Von Neumann entropy. Denote the state that produces the EoP by ψM|\psi\rangle_M. We calculate the variance of entanglement entropy of AA~A\tilde{A} in the state ψ(δ):=eiδHA~B~ψM|\psi(\delta)\rangle:=e^{i\delta H_{\tilde{A}\tilde{B}}}|\psi\rangle_M. We find a constraint on the state ψM|\psi\rangle_M, [KAA~,M,OA~]=0[K_{A\tilde{A},M},O_{\tilde{A}}]=0, where KAA~,MK_{A\tilde{A},M} is the modular Hamiltonian of AA~A\tilde{A} in the state ψM|\psi\rangle_M, OA~R(A~)O_{\tilde{A}}\in \mathscr{R}(\tilde{A}) is an arbitrary operator. We also study three different states that can be seen as disentangled states. Two of them can produce the holographic EoP result in some limit. But we show that none of they could be a candidate of the state ψM|\psi\rangle_M, since the distance between these three states and ψM|\psi\rangle_M is very large.

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@article{arxiv.1904.12124,
  title  = {Entanglement of purification and disentanglement in CFTs},
  author = {Wu-zhong Guo},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1904.12124},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

references added, significantly improve the result in section 3.3, where we obtain a operator equality