Entanglement of purification and disentanglement in CFTs
Abstract
We study the entanglement of purification (EoP) of subsystem and B in conformal field theories (CFTs) stressing on its relation to unitary operations of disentanglement, if the auxiliary subsystem adjoins and is the complement of . 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 . We calculate the variance of entanglement entropy of in the state . We find a constraint on the state , , where is the modular Hamiltonian of in the state , 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 , since the distance between these three states and 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}
}
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references added, significantly improve the result in section 3.3, where we obtain a operator equality