A note on entanglement entropy and quantum geometry
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
2014-11-25 v2 High Energy Physics - Theory
Mathematical Physics
math.MP
Abstract
It has been argued that the entropy which one is computing in the isolated horizon framework of loop quantum gravity is closely related to the entanglement entropy of the gravitational field and that the calculation performed is not restricted to horizons. We recall existing work on this issue and explain how recent work on generalising these computations to arbitrary spacetime dimensions D+1>2 supports this point of view and makes the duality between entanglement entropy and the entropy computed from counting boundary states manifest. In a certain semiclassical regime in 3+1 dimensions, this entropy is given by the Bekenstein-Hawking formula.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1402.1038,
title = {A note on entanglement entropy and quantum geometry},
author = {Norbert Bodendorfer},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1402.1038},
year = {2014}
}
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14 pages. v2: journal version. Comment added