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Holographic entanglement entropy for massive flavours in dS_4

High Energy Physics - Theory 2016-04-07 v2

Abstract

We examine the holographic entanglement entropy of spherical regions in de Sitter space in the presence of massive flavour fields which are modelled by probe D7 branes in AdS_5xS^5. We focus on the finite part of the massive correction to the entropy in the limits of small mass and large mass that are separated by a phase transition between two topologically distinct brane embeddings. For small masses, it approaches the flat space result for small spheres, whereas for large spheres there is a term that goes as the log of the sphere radius. For large masses, we find evidence for a universal contribution logarithmic in the mass. In all cases the entanglement entropy is smooth as the sphere radius crosses the horizon.

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@article{arxiv.1512.07902,
  title  = {Holographic entanglement entropy for massive flavours in dS_4},
  author = {Vladislav Vaganov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1512.07902},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

36 pages, 8 figures. Minor corrections. Clarifications about lack of transition in EE as sphere size crosses horizon. Version published in JHEP