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Fine structure in holographic entanglement and entanglement contour

High Energy Physics - Theory 2018-11-14 v4

Abstract

We explore the fine structure of the holographic entanglement entropy proposal (the Ryu-Takayanagi formula) in AdS3_3/CFT2_{2}. With the guidance from the boundary and bulk modular flows we find a natural slicing of the entanglement wedge with the modular planes, which are co-dimension one bulk surfaces tangent to the modular flow everywhere. This gives an one-to-one correspondence between the points on the boundary interval A\mathcal{A} and the points on the Ryu-Takayanagi (RT) surface EA\mathcal{E}_{\mathcal{A}}. In the same sense an arbitrary subinterval A2\mathcal{A}_2 of A\mathcal{A} will correspond to a subinterval E2\mathcal{E}_2 of EA\mathcal{E}_{\mathcal{A}}. This fine correspondence indicates that the length of E2\mathcal{E}_2 captures the contribution sA(A2)s_{\mathcal{A}}(\mathcal{A}_2) from A2\mathcal{A}_2 to the entanglement entropy SAS_{\mathcal{A}}, hence gives the contour function for entanglement entropy. Furthermore we propose that sA(A2)s_{\mathcal{A}}(\mathcal{A}_2) in general can be written as a simple linear combination of entanglement entropies of single intervals inside A\mathcal{A}. This proposal passes several non-trivial tests.

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@article{arxiv.1803.05552,
  title  = {Fine structure in holographic entanglement and entanglement contour},
  author = {Qiang Wen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1803.05552},
  year   = {2018}
}

Comments

v3:Version improved, second half of the paper re-written, relate the fine structure to the entanglement contour, references added, title changed, calculation details added. v4:published version 21 pages, 9 figures