Entanglement, tensor networks and black hole horizons

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DOI10.1007/S10714-014-1823-YzbMATH Open1308.83099arXiv1403.5395OpenAlexW3102991778MaRDI QIDQ2263754FDOQ2263754


Authors: J. Prior, Javier Molina-Vilaplana Edit this on Wikidata


Publication date: 19 March 2015

Published in: General Relativity and Gravitation (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We elaborate on a previous proposal by Hartman and Maldacena on a tensor network which accounts for the scaling of the entanglement entropy in a system at a finite temperature. In this construction, the ordinary entanglement renormalization flow given by the class of tensor networks known as the Multi Scale Entanglement Renormalization Ansatz (MERA), is supplemented by an additional entanglement structure at the length scale fixed by the temperature. The network comprises two copies of a MERA circuit with a fixed number of layers and a pure matrix product state which joins both copies by entangling the infrared degrees of freedom of both MERA networks. The entanglement distribution within this bridge state defines reduced density operators on both sides which cause analogous effects to the presence of a black hole horizon when computing the entanglement entropy at finite temperature in the AdS/CFT correspondence. The entanglement and correlations during the thermalization process of a system after a quantum quench are also analyzed. To this end, a full tensor network representation of the action of local unitary operations on the bridge state is proposed. This amounts to a tensor network which grows in size by adding succesive layers of bridge states. Finally, we discuss on the holographic interpretation of the tensor network through a notion of distance within the network which emerges from its entanglement distribution.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1403.5395




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