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Relative entanglement entropy for widely separated regions in curved spacetime

Mathematical Physics 2018-08-01 v1 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology High Energy Physics - Theory math.MP Quantum Physics

Abstract

We give an upper bound of the relative entanglement entropy of the ground state of a massive Dirac-Majorana field across two widely separated regions AA and BB in a static slice of an ultrastatic Lorentzian spacetime. Our bound decays exponentially in dist(A,B)dist (A, B), at a rate set by the Compton wavelength and the spatial scalar curvature. The physical interpretation our result is that, on a manifold with positive spatial scalar curvature, one cannot use the entanglement of the vacuum state to teleport one classical bit from AA to BB if their distance is of the order of the maximum of the curvature radius and the Compton wave length or greater.

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@article{arxiv.1711.02039,
  title  = {Relative entanglement entropy for widely separated regions in curved spacetime},
  author = {Stefan Hollands and Onirban Islam and Ko Sanders},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1711.02039},
  year   = {2018}
}

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17 pages, 2 figures