The Quantum Null Energy Condition and Entanglement Entropy in Quenches
High Energy Physics - Theory
2019-09-04 v1 Strongly Correlated Electrons
Quantum Physics
Abstract
The Quantum Null Energy Condition (QNEC) relates energy to the second variation of entropy in relativistic quantum field theory. We use the QNEC inequality to bound entanglement entropy in quenches. At early times the entanglement entropy grows quadratically in time, and the QNEC provides an upper bound on the prefactor. We demonstrate that the bound is tight, by showing that it is saturated in certain quench protocols: boundary state quenches in conformal field theories in any dimensions. In higher than two dimensions we compute entanglement entropy using AdS/CFT. Our results are the first purely field theoretic applications of the QNEC.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1909.00919,
title = {The Quantum Null Energy Condition and Entanglement Entropy in Quenches},
author = {Márk Mezei and Julio Virrueta},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1909.00919},
year = {2019}
}
Comments
10 pages, 2 figures