Entanglement entropy and variational methods: Interacting scalar fields

DOI10.1016/J.AOP.2015.12.005MaRDI QIDQ530879zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Jordan S. Cotler, Mark T. Mueller

Publication date 1 August 2016

Published in Annals of Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1509.05685

zbMATH Keywords

entropyentanglementvariational principlesquantum field theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Measures of information, entropy (94A17) Variational principles of physics (49S05) Quantum coherence, entanglement, quantum correlations (81P40)

Abstract: We develop a variational approximation to the entanglement entropy for scalar $ph{i}^4$ theory in 1+1, 2+1, and 3+1 dimensions, and then examine the entanglement entropy as a function of the coupling. We find that in 1+1 and 2+1 dimensions, the entanglement entropy of $ph{i}^4$ theory as a function of coupling is monotonically decreasing and convex. While $ph{i}^4$ theory with positive bare coupling in 3+1 dimensions is thought to lead to a trivial free theory, we analyze a version of $ph{i}^4$ with infinitesimal negative bare coupling, an asymptotically free theory known as precarious $ph{i}^4$ theory, and explore the monotonicity and convexity of its entanglement entropy as a function of coupling. Within the variational approximation, the stability of precarious $ph{i}^4$ theory is related to the sign of the first and second derivatives of the entanglement entropy with respect to the coupling.

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