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Tripartite information at long distances

High Energy Physics - Theory 2022-05-11 v2 Other Condensed Matter Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

We compute the leading term of the tripartite information at long distances for three spheres in a CFT. This falls as r6Δr^{-6\Delta}, where rr is the typical distance between the spheres, and Δ\Delta, the lowest primary field dimension. The coefficient turns out to be a combination of terms coming from the two- and three-point functions and depends on the OPE coefficient of the field. We check the result with three-dimensional free scalars in the lattice finding excellent agreement. When the lowest-dimensional field is a scalar, we find that the mutual information can be monogamous only for quite large OPE coefficients, far away from a perturbative regime. When the lowest-dimensional primary is a fermion, we argue that the scaling must always be faster than r6Δfr^{-6\Delta_f}. In particular, lattice calculations suggest a leading scaling r(6Δf+1) r^{-(6\Delta_f+1)}. For free fermions in three dimensions, we show that mutual information is also non-monogamous in the long-distance regime.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2109.09179,
  title  = {Tripartite information at long distances},
  author = {César A. Agón and Pablo Bueno and Horacio Casini},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2109.09179},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

25 pages and 5 figures. V2: References added, a paragraph with comments on $d=2$ results was included and it matches the version to appear in SciPost

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