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Extractable entanglement from a Euclidean hourglass

High Energy Physics - Theory 2022-11-09 v3

Abstract

We previously proposed that entanglement across a planar surface can be obtained from the partition function on a Euclidean hourglass geometry. Here we extend the prescription to spherical entangling surfaces in conformal field theory. We use the prescription to evaluate log terms in the entropy of a CFT in two dimensions, a conformally-coupled scalar in four dimensions, and a Maxwell field in four dimensions. For Maxwell we reproduce the extractable entropy obtained by Soni and Trivedi. We take this as evidence that the hourglass prescription provides a Euclidean technique for evaluating extractable entropy in quantum field theory.

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@article{arxiv.2205.01137,
  title  = {Extractable entanglement from a Euclidean hourglass},
  author = {Takanori Anegawa and Norihiro Iizuka and Daniel Kabat},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2205.01137},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

20 pages. v2: references added. v3: added appendix A

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