scholarly journals Holographic approach to thermalization in general anisotropic theories

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Po-Chun Sun ◽  
Da-Shin Lee ◽  
Chen-Pin Yeh
Keyword(s):  
Entanglement Entropy ◽  
Time Dependent ◽  
Field Theories ◽  
Energy Conditions ◽  
Extremal Surface ◽  
Spherical Region ◽  
Strongly Coupled ◽  
Anisotropic Scaling ◽  
Holographic Approach ◽  
Special Case

Abstract We employ the holographic approach to study the thermalization in the quenched strongly-coupled field theories with very general anisotropic scalings including Lifshitz and hyperscaling violating fixed points. The holographic dual is a Vaidya-like time-dependent geometry where the asymptotic metric has general anisotropic scaling isometries. We find the Ryu-Takanayagi extremal surface and use it to calculate the time-dependent entanglement entropy between a strip region with width 2R and its outside region. In the special case with an isotropic metric, we also explore the entanglement entropy for a spherical region of radius R. The growth of the entanglement entropy characterizes the thermalization rate after a quench. We study the thermalization process in the early times and late times in both large R and small R limits. The allowed scaling parameter regions are constrained by the null energy conditions as well as the condition for the existence of the Ryu-Takanayagi extremal surfaces. This generalizes the previous works on this subject. All obtained results can be compared with experiments and other methods of probing thermalization.

scholarly journals Spread of Entanglement in Non-Relativistic Theories

2018 ◽  
Vol 2018 ◽  
pp. 1-27
Author(s):  
Sagar F. Lokhande
Keyword(s):  
Broad Class ◽  
Entanglement Entropy ◽  
Time Dependent ◽  
Quantum Field Theories ◽  
Strongly Coupled ◽  
Conformal Field ◽  
Instantaneous Power ◽  
Holographic Entanglement Entropy ◽  
Quantum Quenches ◽  
Good Order

We use a simple holographic toy model to study global quantum quenches in strongly coupled, hyperscaling-violating-Lifshitz quantum field theories using entanglement entropy as a probe. Generalizing our conformal field theory results, we show that the holographic entanglement entropy of small subsystems can be written as a simple linear response relation. We use this relation to derive a time-dependent first law of entanglement entropy. In general, this law has a time-dependent term resembling relative entropy which we propose as a good order parameter to characterize out-of-equilibrium states in the post-quench evolution. We use these tools to study a broad class of quantum quenches in detail: instantaneous, power law, and periodic.

scholarly journals Defects and perturbation

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Enrico M. Brehm
Keyword(s):  
Entanglement Entropy ◽  
Topological Defects ◽  
Field Theories ◽  
Two Dimensional ◽  
Conformal Field Theories ◽  
Minimal Models ◽  
Conformal Field

Abstract We investigate perturbatively tractable deformations of topological defects in two-dimensional conformal field theories. We perturbatively compute the change in the g-factor, the reflectivity, and the entanglement entropy of the conformal defect at the end of these short RG flows. We also give instances of such flows in the diagonal Virasoro and Super-Virasoro Minimal Models.

scholarly journals Entanglement entropy in low-energy field theories at a finite chemical potential

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ivan Morera ◽  
Irénée Frérot ◽  
Artur Polls ◽  
Bruno Juliá-Díaz
Keyword(s):  
Chemical Potential ◽  
Entanglement Entropy ◽  
Low Energy ◽  
Field Theories ◽  
Energy Field

scholarly journals Quantum information probes of charge fractionalization in large-N gauge theories

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Brandon S. DiNunno ◽  
Niko Jokela ◽  
Juan F. Pedraza ◽  
Arttu Pönni
Keyword(s):  
Degrees Of Freedom ◽  
Gauge Theories ◽  
Entanglement Entropy ◽  
Coarse Grained ◽  
Strongly Coupled ◽  
Information Theoretic ◽  
Large N ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Charge Fractionalization ◽  
Electric Flux

Abstract We study in detail various information theoretic quantities with the intent of distinguishing between different charged sectors in fractionalized states of large-N gauge theories. For concreteness, we focus on a simple holographic (2 + 1)-dimensional strongly coupled electron fluid whose charged states organize themselves into fractionalized and coherent patterns at sufficiently low temperatures. However, we expect that our results are quite generic and applicable to a wide range of systems, including non-holographic. The probes we consider include the entanglement entropy, mutual information, entanglement of purification and the butterfly velocity. The latter turns out to be particularly useful, given the universal connection between momentum and charge diffusion in the vicinity of a black hole horizon. The RT surfaces used to compute the above quantities, though, are largely insensitive to the electric flux in the bulk. To address this deficiency, we propose a generalized entanglement functional that is motivated through the Iyer-Wald formalism, applied to a gravity theory coupled to a U(1) gauge field. We argue that this functional gives rise to a coarse grained measure of entanglement in the boundary theory which is obtained by tracing over (part) of the fractionalized and cohesive charge degrees of freedom. Based on the above, we construct a candidate for an entropic c-function that accounts for the existence of bulk charges. We explore some of its general properties and their significance, and discuss how it can be used to efficiently account for charged degrees of freedom across different energy scales.

scholarly journals Constructing Carrollian CFTs

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nishant Gupta ◽  
Nemani V. Suryanarayana
Keyword(s):  
Scalar Fields ◽  
Higher Dimensions ◽  
Field Theories ◽  
Conformal Field Theories ◽  
Relativistic Limit ◽  
Conformal Field ◽  
Local Symmetries ◽  
Derivatives Of ◽  
Special Case

Abstract We construct classical theories for scalar fields in arbitrary Carroll spacetimes that are invariant under Carrollian diffeomorphisms and Weyl transformations. When the local symmetries are gauge fixed these theories become Carrollian conformal field theories. We show that generically there are at least two types of such theories: one in which only time derivatives of the fields appear and the other in which both space and time derivatives appear. A classification of such scalar field theories in three (and higher) dimensions up to two derivative order is provided. We show that only a special case of our theories arises in the ultra-relativistic limit of a covariant parent theory.

scholarly journals Islands and Page curves of Reissner-Nordström black holes

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Xuanhua Wang ◽  
Ran Li ◽  
Jin Wang
Keyword(s):  
Black Holes ◽  
Black Hole ◽  
Hawking Radiation ◽  
Entanglement Entropy ◽  
Additional Term ◽  
Current Case ◽  
Information Paradox ◽  
Extremal Surface ◽  
Four Dimensions ◽  
Black Hole Information

Abstract We apply the recently proposed quantum extremal surface construction to calculate the Page curve of the eternal Reissner-Nordström black holes in four dimensions ignoring the backreaction and the greybody factor. Without the island, the entropy of Hawking radiation grows linearly with time, which results in the information paradox for the eternal black holes. By extremizing the generalized entropy that allows the contributions from the island, we find that the island extends to the outside the horizon of the Reissner-Nordström black hole. When taking the effect of the islands into account, it is shown that the entanglement entropy of Hawking radiation at late times for a given region far from the black hole horizon reproduces the Bekenstein-Hawking entropy of the Reissner-Nordström black hole with an additional term representing the effect of the matter fields. The result is consistent with the finiteness of the entanglement entropy for the radiation from an eternal black hole. This facilitates to address the black hole information paradox issue in the current case under the above-mentioned approximations.

scholarly journals Quantum critical scaling and holographic bound for transport coefficients near Lifshitz points

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 (11) ◽  
Author(s):  
Gian Andrea Inkof ◽  
Joachim M. C. Küppers ◽  
Julia M. Link ◽  
Blaise Goutéraux ◽  
Jörg Schmalian
Keyword(s):  
Field Theory ◽  
Transport Coefficients ◽  
Massless Scalar ◽  
Famous Conjecture ◽  
Strongly Coupled ◽  
Spatial Anisotropy ◽  
Anisotropic Scaling ◽  
Geometric Ratio ◽  
Anisotropic Systems ◽  
Gauge Gravity

Abstract The transport behavior of strongly anisotropic systems is significantly richer compared to isotropic ones. The most dramatic spatial anisotropy at a critical point occurs at a Lifshitz transition, found in systems with merging Dirac or Weyl point or near the superconductor-insulator quantum phase transition. Previous work found that in these systems a famous conjecture on the existence of a lower bound for the ratio of a shear viscosity to entropy is violated, and proposed a generalization of this bound for anisotropic systems near charge neutrality involving the electric conductivities. The present study uses scaling arguments and the gauge-gravity duality to confirm the previous analysis of universal bounds in anisotropic Dirac systems. We investigate the strongly-coupled phase of quantum Lifshitz systems in a gravitational Einstein-Maxwell-dilaton model with a linear massless scalar which breaks translations in the boundary dual field theory and sources the anisotropy. The holographic computation demonstrates that some elements of the viscosity tensor can be related to the ratio of the electric conductivities through a simple geometric ratio of elements of the bulk metric evaluated at the horizon, and thus obey a generalized bound, while others violate it. From the IR critical geometry, we express the charge diffusion constants in terms of the square butterfly velocities. The proportionality factor turns out to be direction-independent, linear in the inverse temperature, and related to the critical exponents which parametrize the anisotropic scaling of the dual field theory.

scholarly journals Defect extremal surface for reflected entropy

2022 ◽  
Vol 2022 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Tianyi Li ◽  
Ma-Ke Yuan ◽  
Yang Zhou
Keyword(s):  
Black Hole ◽  
Mixed State ◽  
Entanglement Entropy ◽  
Quantum Defect ◽  
Entropy Measure ◽  
Extremal Surface ◽  
Decomposition Procedure ◽  
Hole Model ◽  
Quantum Defect Theory

Abstract Defect extremal surface is defined by extremizing the Ryu-Takayanagi formula corrected by the quantum defect theory. This is interesting when the AdS bulk contains a defect brane (or string). We introduce a defect extremal surface formula for reflected entropy, which is a mixed state generalization of entanglement entropy measure. Based on a decomposition procedure of an AdS bulk with a brane, we demonstrate the equivalence between defect extremal surface formula and island formula for reflected entropy in AdS3/BCFT2. We also compute the evolution of reflected entropy in evaporating black hole model and find that defect extremal surface formula agrees with island formula.

scholarly journals HAMILTON–JACOBI THEORY IN k-COSYMPLECTIC FIELD THEORIES

2013 ◽  
Vol 11 (01) ◽  
pp. 1450007 ◽  
Author(s):  
MANUEL DE LEÓN ◽  
SILVIA VILARIÑO
Keyword(s):  
Classical Field ◽  
Time Dependent ◽  
Field Theories ◽  
Classical Field Theories

In this paper, we extend the geometric formalism of the Hamilton–Jacobi theory for time-dependent Mechanics to the case of classical field theories in the k-cosymplectic framework.

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