A canonical purification for the entanglement wedge cross-section

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Publication:2028342

DOI10.1007/JHEP03(2021)178zbMATH Open1461.81104arXiv1905.00577MaRDI QIDQ2028342FDOQ2028342


Authors: Souvik Dutta, Thomas Faulkner Edit this on Wikidata


Publication date: 31 May 2021

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

Abstract: In AdS/CFT we consider a class of bulk geometric quantities inside the entanglement wedge called reflected minimal surfaces. The areas of these surfaces are dual to the entanglement entropy associated to a canonical purification (the GNS state) that we dub the reflected entropy. From the bulk point of view, we show that half the area of the reflected minimal surface gives a reinterpretation of the notion of the entanglement wedge cross-section. We prove some general properties of the reflected entropy and introduce a novel replica trick in CFTs for studying it. The duality is established using a recently introduced approach to holographic modular flow. We also consider an explicit holographic construction of the canonical purification, introduced by Engelhardt and Wall; the reflected minimal surfaces are simply RT surfaces in this new spacetime. We contrast our results with the entanglement of purification conjecture, and finally comment on the continuum limit where we find a relation to the split property: the reflected entropy computes the von Neumann entropy of a canonical splitting type-I factor introduced by Doplicher and Longo.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.00577




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