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Formulas for Partial Entanglement Entropy

High Energy Physics - Theory 2020-05-20 v4 Statistical Mechanics General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology Quantum Physics

Abstract

The partial entanglement entropy (PEE) sA(Ai)s_{\mathcal{A}}(\mathcal{A}_i) characterizes how much the subset Ai\mathcal{A}_i of A\mathcal{A} contribute to the entanglement entropy SAS_{\mathcal{A}}. We find one additional physical requirement for sA(Ai)s_{\mathcal{A}}(\mathcal{A}_i), which is the invariance under a permutation. The partial entanglement entropy proposal satisfies all the physical requirements. We show that for Poincar\'e invariant theories the physical requirements are enough to uniquely determine the PEE (or the entanglement contour) to satisfy a general formula. This is the first time we find the PEE can be uniquely determined. Since the solution of the requirements is unique and the \textit{PEE proposal} is a solution, the \textit{PEE proposal} is justified for Poincar\'e invariant theories.

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@article{arxiv.1910.10978,
  title  = {Formulas for Partial Entanglement Entropy},
  author = {Qiang Wen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1910.10978},
  year   = {2020}
}

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v3:21pages,version improved a lot; v4:typos corrected, matching with the published version on PRResearch

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