Decoherence in conformal field theory (Q2188667): Difference between revisions

In this paper, the authors analyze the decoherence in conformal field theory. They mainly consider a thermofield double state which is actually a general entangled pure state undergoing a decoherence process and find out the decoherence rate, the changes of the purity and entanglement. It is shown that the purity and the Renyi entropies monotonically decay from unity to a thermal asymptotic value and the logarithmic negativity in the long-time regime depends on the degeneracies in the energy spectrum. Namely, the degeneracy could lead to the non-zero entanglement. They also analyze the two-point functions, information loss and quantum channel dilations and propose a gravitaional dual interpretation of the decoherent dynamics. Finally, the effect of decoherence on a single CFT copy is shown by analyzing the dynamics of boundary states. From the point of quantum information view, this paper is only focused on a simple calculation/analysis of decoherence of a pure bipartite entangled state. All the results aren't surprising and even could be almost trivial. This job could be interesting for the readers in the field of the gravity duality. But I don't know what these results could mean for the gravity duality. The paper published on ``JHEP'' could imply the readers in the specalized field. However, as a separate paper, it seems lack of the background of the knowledge about the gravity duality such as the importance of the state \(|\mathrm{CFT}>\), why the thermofield double states should be studied independently, and so on. As for me, these could be what I expected. The current paper should be the final analysis after those research.