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Thermodynamic law from the entanglement entropy bound

High Energy Physics - Theory 2016-04-20 v2

Abstract

From black hole thermodynamics, the Bekenstein bound has been proposed as a universal thermal entropy bound. It has been further generalized to an entanglement entropy bound which is valid even in a quantum system. In a quantumly entangled system, the non-negativity of the relative entropy leads to the entanglement entropy bound. When the entanglement entropy bound is saturated, a quantum system satisfies the thermodynamics-like law with an appropriately defined entanglement temperature. We show that the saturation of the entanglement entropy bound accounts for a universal feature of the entanglement temperature proportional to the inverse of the system size. In addition, we show that the deformed modular Hamiltonian under a global quench also satisfies the generalized entanglement entropy boundary after introducing a new quantity called the entanglement chemical potential.

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@article{arxiv.1511.02288,
  title  = {Thermodynamic law from the entanglement entropy bound},
  author = {Chanyong Park},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1511.02288},
  year   = {2016}
}

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18 pages, references added, modified the entanglement entropy bound caused by a global quench