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The silence of binary Kerr

High Energy Physics - Theory 2020-11-04 v2

Abstract

A non-trivial S\mathcal{S}-matrix generally implies a production of entanglement: starting with an incoming pure state the scattering generally returns an outgoing state with non-vanishing entanglement entropy. It is then interesting to ask if there exists a non-trivial S\mathcal{S}-matrix that generates no entanglement. In this letter, we argue that the answer is the scattering of classical black holes. We study the spin-entanglement in the scattering of arbitrary spinning particles. Augmented with Thomas-Wigner rotation factors, we derive the entanglement entropy from the gravitational induced 222\rightarrow 2 amplitude. In the Eikonal limit, we find that the relative entanglement entropy, defined here as the \textit{difference} between the entanglement entropy of the \textit{in} and \textit{out}-states, is nearly zero for minimal coupling irrespective of the \textit{in}-state, and increases significantly for any non-vanishing spin multipole moments. This suggests that minimal couplings of spinning particles, whose classical limit corresponds to Kerr black hole, has the unique feature of generating near zero entanglement.

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@article{arxiv.2007.09486,
  title  = {The silence of binary Kerr},
  author = {Rafael Aoude and Ming-Zhi Chung and Yu-tin Huang and Camila S. Machado and Man-Kuan Tam},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2007.09486},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

6 pages, 6 figures, supplementary added, 9 figures

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