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The Page Curve for Reflected Entropy

High Energy Physics - Theory 2023-07-18 v3 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology Quantum Physics

Abstract

We study the reflected entropy SRS_R in the West Coast Model, a toy model of black hole evaporation consisting of JT gravity coupled to end-of-the-world branes. We demonstrate the validity of the holographic duality relating it to the entanglement wedge cross section away from phase transitions. Further, we analyze the important non-perturbative effects that smooth out the discontinuity in the SRS_R phase transition. By performing the gravitational path integral, we obtain the reflected entanglement spectrum analytically. The spectrum takes a simple form consisting of superselection sectors, which we interpret as a direct sum of geometries, a disconnected one and a connected one involving a closed universe. We find that area fluctuations of O(GN)O(\sqrt{G_N}) spread out the SRS_R phase transition in the canonical ensemble, analogous to the entanglement entropy phase transition. We also consider a Renyi generalization of the reflected entropy and show that the location of the phase transition varies as a function of the Renyi parameter.

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@article{arxiv.2201.11730,
  title  = {The Page Curve for Reflected Entropy},
  author = {Chris Akers and Thomas Faulkner and Simon Lin and Pratik Rath},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2201.11730},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

25 pages, 11 pretty figures, minor clarifications added and typos fixed in v2, typo fixed in v3

R2 v1 2026-06-24T09:06:03.882Z