Published September 2019 | Version v1
Journal article

Entanglement of purification and disentanglement in CFTs

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  • 1. National Tsing-Hua University, Physics Division, National Center for Theoretical Sciences (China)

Description

We study the entanglement of purification (EoP) of subsystem A and B in conformal field theories (CFTs) stressing on its relation to unitary operations of disentanglement, if the auxiliary subsystem A~ adjoins A and A~B~ is the complement of AB. We estimate the amount of the disentanglement by using the inequality of Von Neumann entropy as well as the surface/state correspondence. Denote the state that produces the EoP by |ψM. We calculate the variance of entanglement entropy of AA~ in the state |ψ(δ):=eiδHA~B~|ψM. We find a constraint on the state |ψM[KAA~,M,OA~]=0, where KAA~,M is the modular Hamiltonian of AA~ in the state |ψM, OA~R(A~) is an arbitrary operator. We also study three different states that can be seen as disentangled states. Two of them can produce the holographic EoP result in some limit. But we show that none of they could be a candidate of the state |ψM, since the distance between these three states and |ψM is very large.

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Journal Title
Journal of High Energy Physics (Online)
Journal Volume
2019
Journal Issue
9
Journal Page Range
p. 1-24
ISSN
1029-8479

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