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.
Cite
@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}
}
Comments
5 pages, 1 figure; to appear in Phys. Rev. Lett