Entanglement entropy, dualities, and deconfinement in gauge theories

DOI10.1007/JHEP08(2018)175zbMATH Open1396.81025arXiv1804.01956OpenAlexW2796269012WikidataQ129322002 ScholiaQ129322002MaRDI QIDQ1783899FDOQ1783899

Authors: Mohamed M. Anber, Benjamin J. Kolligs 

Publication date: 21 September 2018

Published in: Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Computing the entanglement entropy in confining gauge theories is often accompanied by puzzles and ambiguities. In this work we show that compactifying the theory on a small circle $mathbb{S}_L^1$ evades these difficulties. In particular, we study Yang-Mills theory on $mathbb{R}^{3}imesmathbb{S}_L^1$ with double-trace deformations or adjoint fermions and hold it at temperatures near the deconfinement transition. This theory is dual to a multi-component (electric-magnetic) Coulomb gas that can be mapped either to an XY-spin model with $mathbb{Z}_p$-preserving perturbations or dual Sine-Gordon model. The entanglement entropy of the dual Sine-Gordon model exhibits an extremum at the critical temperature/crossover. We also compute Renyi mutual information (RMI) of the XY-spin model by means of the replica trick and Monte Carlo simulations. These are expensive calculations, since one in general needs to suppress lower winding vortices that do not correspond to physical excitations of the system. We use a T-duality that maps the original XY model to its mirror image, making the extraction of RMI a much efficient process. Our simulations indicate that RMI follows the area law scaling, with subleading corrections, and this quantity can be used as a genuine probe to detect deconfinement transitions. We also discuss the effect of fundamental matter on RMI and the implications of our findings in gauge theories and beyond.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.01956

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zbMATH Keywords

field theories in lower dimensionsduality in gauge field theorieslattice quantum field theorysolitons monopoles and instantons

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum coherence, entanglement, quantum correlations (81P40) Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Quantum field theory on lattices (81T25)

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