Published January 30, 2024 | Version v1
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Pseudoentropy for descendant operators in two-dimensional conformal field theories

  • 1. Center for Theoretical Physics and College of Physics, Jilin University, Changchun 130012, People's Republic of China
  • 2. Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute), Am Mühlenberg 1, 14476 Golm, Germany
  • 3. School of Mathematical Sciences, Capital Normal University, Beijing 100048, People's Republic of China

Description

We study the late-time behaviors of pseudo-(Rényi) entropy of locally excited states in rational conformal field theories. To construct the transition matrix, we utilize two nonorthogonal locally excited states that are created by the application of different descendant operators to vacuum. We show that when two descendant operators are generated by a single Virasoro generator acting on the same primary operator, the late-time excess of pseudoentropy and pseudo-Rényi entropy corresponds to the logarithm of the quantum dimension of the associated primary operator, in agreement with the case of entanglement entropy. However, for linear combination operators generated by the generic summation of Virasoro generators, we obtain a distinct late-time excess formula for the pseudo-(Rényi) entropy compared to that for (Rényi) entanglement entropy. As the mixing of holomorphic and antiholomorphic generators enhances the entanglement, in this case, the pseudo-(Rényi) entropy can receive an additional contribution. The additional contribution can be expressed as the pseudo-(Rényi) entropy of an effective transition matrix in a finite-dimensional Hilbert space.

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Identifiers

DOI
10.1103/PhysRevD.109.025014;
arXiv
arXiv:2301.04891;
Crossref Funder ID
10.13039/501100012226; 10.13039/501100001809;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physical Review D
Journal Volume
109
Journal Issue
2
Journal Page Range
21 pgs.
ISSN
1089-4918

Optional Information

Contract/Grant/Project number
12075101; 12235016
Notes
Contact Email: hesong@jlu.edu.cn; Contact Email: yangjie@cnu.edu.cn; Contact Email: yuxuanz20@mails.jlu.edu.cn; Contact Email: zzx23@mails.jlu.edu.cn; Record automatically processed
Funding organization
Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities; National Natural Science Foundation of China; Max Planck Partner Group