The Page Curve for Reflected Entropy
Abstract
We study the reflected entropy 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 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 spread out the 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.
Cite
@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