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Holographic Phases of Renyi Entropies

High Energy Physics - Theory 2015-06-16 v4 Strongly Correlated Electrons General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology Quantum Physics

Abstract

We consider Renyi entropies of conformal field theories in flat space, with the entangling surface being a sphere. The AdS/CFT correspondence relates this Renyi entropy to that of a black hole with hyperbolic horizon; as the Renyi parameter nn increases the temperature of the black hole decreases. If the CFT possesses a sufficiently low dimension scalar operator the black hole will be unstable to the development of hair. Thus, as nn is varied, the Renyi entropies will exhibit a phase transition at a critical value of nn. The location of the phase transition, along with the spectrum of the reduced density matrix ρ\rho, depends on the dimension of the lowest dimension non-trivial scalar operator in the theory.

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@article{arxiv.1306.2640,
  title  = {Holographic Phases of Renyi Entropies},
  author = {Alexandre Belin and Alexander Maloney and Shunji Matsuura},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1306.2640},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

21 pages, 7 figures, v3 - References added. Neumann boundary conditions added in section 5