Von Neumann entropy in QFT

DOI10.1007/S00220-020-03702-7MaRDI QIDQ2658932zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Roberto Longo, Feng Xu

Publication date 25 March 2021

Published in Communications in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.09390

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Automorphisms of selfadjoint operator algebras (46L40) States of selfadjoint operator algebras (46L30) Axiomatic quantum field theory; operator algebras (81T05) General theory of von Neumann algebras (46L10) Applications of selfadjoint operator algebras to physics (46L60) Fermionic systems in quantum theory (81V74) Entanglement measures, concurrencies, separability criteria (81P42)

Abstract: In the framework of Quantum Field Theory, we provide a rigorous, operator algebraic notion of entanglement entropy associated with a pair of open double cones $OsubsetildeO$ of the spacetime, where the closure of $O$ is contained in $ildeO$. Given a QFT net $A$ of local von Neumann algebras $A(O)$, we consider the von Neumann entropy $S_A(O,ildeO)$ of the restriction of the vacuum state to the canonical intermediate type $I$ factor for the inclusion of von Neumann algebras $A(O)subsetA(ildeO)$ (split property). We show that this canonical entanglement entropy $S_A(O,ildeO)$ is finite for the chiral conformal net on the circle generated by finitely many free Fermions (here double cones are intervals). To this end, we first study the notion of von Neumann entropy of a closed real linear subspace of a complex Hilbert space, that we then estimate for the local free fermion subspaces. We further consider the lower entanglement entropy $underline{S}_A(O,ildeO)$, the infimum of the vacuum von Neumann entropy of $F$, where $F$ here runs over all the intermediate, discrete type $I$ von Neumann algebras. We prove that $underline{S}_A(O,ildeO)$ is finite for the local chiral conformal net generated by finitely many commuting $U(1)$-currents.

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