Fine structure in holographic entanglement and entanglement contour
Abstract
We explore the fine structure of the holographic entanglement entropy proposal (the Ryu-Takayanagi formula) in AdS/CFT. 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 and the points on the Ryu-Takayanagi (RT) surface . In the same sense an arbitrary subinterval of will correspond to a subinterval of . This fine correspondence indicates that the length of captures the contribution from to the entanglement entropy , hence gives the contour function for entanglement entropy. Furthermore we propose that in general can be written as a simple linear combination of entanglement entropies of single intervals inside . 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