Membrane theory of entanglement dynamics from holography
High Energy Physics - Theory
2019-09-04 v2 Strongly Correlated Electrons
Abstract
Recently, a minimal membrane description of the entanglement dynamics of large regions in generic chaotic systems was conjectured in arXiv:1803.00089. Analytic results in random circuits and spin chain numerics support this theory. We show that the results found by the author in arXiv:1612.00082 about the dynamics of entanglement entropy in theories with a holographic dual can be reformulated in terms of the same minimal membrane, providing strong evidence that the membrane theory describes all chaotic systems. We discuss the implications of our results for tensor network approaches to holography and the holographic renormalization group.
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@article{arxiv.1803.10244,
title = {Membrane theory of entanglement dynamics from holography},
author = {Márk Mezei},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1803.10244},
year = {2019}
}
Comments
v2: minor improvements in presentation v1: 9 pages, 4 figures