English

Entropy-area law and temperature of de Sitter horizons from modular theory

High Energy Physics - Theory 2024-02-13 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

We derive an entropy-area law for the future horizon of an observer in diamonds inside the static patch of de Sitter spacetime, taking into account the backreaction of quantum matter fields. We prove positivity and convexity of the relative entropy for coherent states using Tomita--Takesaki modular theory, from which the QNEC for diamonds follows. Furthermore, we show that the generalized entropy conjecture holds. Finally, we reveal that the local temperature which is measured by an observer at rest exhibits subleading quantum corrections with respect to the well-known cosmological horizon temperature H/(2π)H/(2\pi).

Keywords

Cite

@article{arxiv.2311.13990,
  title  = {Entropy-area law and temperature of de Sitter horizons from modular theory},
  author = {Edoardo D'Angelo and Markus B. Fröb and Stefano Galanda and Paolo Meda and Albert Much and Kyriakos Papadopoulos},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2311.13990},
  year   = {2024}
}

Comments

11 pages, 3 figures. Accepted for publication in PTEP