An inverse mass expansion for the mutual information in free scalar QFT at finite temperature

DOI10.1007/JHEP02(2020)091zbMATH Open1435.81150arXiv1907.08508MaRDI QIDQ2188606FDOQ2188606

Authors: Dimitrios Katsinis, Georgios Pastras 

Publication date: 11 June 2020

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

Abstract: We study the entanglement entropy and the mutual information in coupled harmonic systems at finite temperature. Interestingly, we find that the mutual information does not vanish at infinite temperature, but it rather reaches a specific finite value, which can be attributed to classical correlations solely. We further obtain high and low temperature expansions for both quantities. Then, we extend the analysis performed in the seminal paper by Srednicki (Phys. Rev. Lett. 71, 666 (1993)) for free real scalar field theories in Minkowski space-time in 3+1 dimensions at a thermal state. We find that the mutual information obeys an area law, similar to that obeyed by the entanglement entropy at vanishing temperature. The coefficient of this area law does not vanish at infinite temperature. Then, we calculate this coefficient perturbatively in an $1/mu$ expansion, where $mu$ is the mass of the scalar field. Finally, we study the high and low temperature behaviour of the area law term.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.08508

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zbMATH Keywords

field theories in higher dimensionsfield theories in lower dimensionslattice quantum field theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Thermal quantum field theory (81T28) Quantum field theory on lattices (81T25)

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