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Holographic complexity of the disk subregion in (2+1)-dimensional gapped systems

High Energy Physics - Theory 2018-09-18 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

Using the volume of the space enclosed by the Ryu-Takayanagi (RT) surface, we study the complexity of the disk-shape subregion (with radius R) in various (2+1)-dimensional gapped systems with gravity dual. These systems include a class of toy models with singular IR and the bottom-up models for quantum chromodynamics and fractional quantum Hall effects. Two main results are: i) in the large-R expansion of the complexity, the R-linear term is always absent, similar to the absence of topological entanglement entropy; ii) when the entanglement entropy exhibits the classic `swallowtail' phase transition, the complexity is sensitive but reacts differently.

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@article{arxiv.1803.08627,
  title  = {Holographic complexity of the disk subregion in (2+1)-dimensional gapped systems},
  author = {Lin-Peng Du and Shao-Feng Wu and Hua-Bi Zeng},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1803.08627},
  year   = {2018}
}

Comments

30 pages, 7 figures, revised version accepted for publication in PRD