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Holography and Entanglement in Flat Spacetime

High Energy Physics - Theory 2011-04-20 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology Quantum Physics

Abstract

We propose a holographic correspondence of the flat spacetime based on the behavior of the entanglement entropy and the correlation functions. The holographic dual theory turns out to be highly non-local. We argue that after most part of the space is traced out, the reduced density matrix gives the maximal entropy and the correlation functions become trivial. We present a toy model for this holographic dual using a non-local scalar field theory that reproduces the same property of the entanglement entropy. Our conjecture is consistent with the entropy of Schwarzschild black holes in asymptotically flat spacetimes.

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@article{arxiv.1010.3700,
  title  = {Holography and Entanglement in Flat Spacetime},
  author = {Wei Li and Tadashi Takayanagi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1010.3700},
  year   = {2011}
}

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5 pages, 1 figure; to appear in Phys. Rev. Lett

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