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Entanglement entropy in de Sitter space

High Energy Physics - Theory 2015-06-11 v2

Abstract

We compute the entanglement entropy for some quantum field theories on de Sitter space. We consider a superhorizon size spherical surface that divides the spatial slice into two regions, with the field theory in the standard vacuum state. First, we study a free massive scalar field. Then, we consider a strongly coupled field theory with a gravity dual, computing the entanglement using the gravity solution. In even dimensions, the interesting piece of the entanglement entropy is proportional to the number of e-foldings that elapsed since the spherical region was inside the horizon. In odd dimensions it is contained in a certain finite piece. In both cases the entanglement captures the long range correlations produced by the expansion.

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@article{arxiv.1210.7244,
  title  = {Entanglement entropy in de Sitter space},
  author = {Juan Maldacena and Guilherme L. Pimentel},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1210.7244},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

34 pages, 8 figures. v2: minor corrections and references added

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