Sunday, May 19, 2013

1305.3448 (Arpan Bhattacharyya et al.)

Entanglement entropy from surface terms in general relativity    [PDF]

Arpan Bhattacharyya, Aninda Sinha
Entanglement entropy in local quantum field theories is typically ultraviolet divergent due to short distance effects in the neighbourhood of the entangling region. In the context of gauge/gravity duality, we show that surface terms in general relativity are able to capture this entanglement entropy. In particular, we demonstrate that for 1+1 dimensional CFTs at finite temperature whose gravity dual is the BTZ black hole, the Gibbons-Hawking-York term precisely reproduces the entanglement entropy which can be computed independently in the field theory.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1305.3448

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