On the (Non)Hadamard property of the SJ state in a 1+1 D causal diamond

DOI10.1088/1361-6382/AD1CE2MaRDI QIDQ6202480zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Yasaman K. Yazdi

Publication date 26 February 2024

Published in Classical and Quantum Gravity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.10592

zbMATH Keywords

entanglement entropydiscrete spacetimearea lawHadamard conditioncausal set theoryquantum field theory in curved spacetimeshigh energy physics -- theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Relativity and gravitational theory (83-XX)

Abstract: The Sorkin-Johnston (SJ) state is a candidate physical vacuum state for a scalar field in a generic curved spacetime. It has the attractive feature that it is covariantly and uniquely defined in any globally hyperbolic spacetime, often reflecting the underlying symmetries if there are any. A potential drawback of the SJ state is that it does not always satisfy the Hadamard condition. In this work, we study the extent to which the SJ state in a $1+1$D causal diamond is Hadamard, finding that it is not Hadamard at the boundary. We then study the softened SJ state, which is a slight modification of the original state to make it Hadamard. We use the softened SJ state to investigate whether some peculiar features of entanglement entropy in causal set theory may be linked to its non-Hadamard nature.

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