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On Volume Subregion Complexity in Non-Conformal Theories

High Energy Physics - Theory 2020-08-26 v2

Abstract

We study the volume prescription of the holographic subregion complexity in a holographic 5 dimensional model consisting of Einstein gravity coupled to a scalar field with a non-trivial potential. The dual 4 dimensional gauge theory is not conformal and exhibits a RG flow between two different fixed points. In both zero and finite temperature we show that the holographic subregion complexity can be used as a measure of non-conformality of the model. This quantity exhibits also a monotonic behaviour in terms of the size of the entangling region, like the behaviour of the entanglement entropy in this setup. There is also a finite jump due to the disentangling transition between connected and disconnected minimal surfaces for holographic renormalized subregion complexity at zero temperature.

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@article{arxiv.2004.11306,
  title  = {On Volume Subregion Complexity in Non-Conformal Theories},
  author = {M. Asadi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2004.11306},
  year   = {2020}
}

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10 pages, 11figures

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