On entanglement entropy of Maxwell fields in 3+1 dimensions

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSLETB.2020.135670zbMATH Open1473.81044arXiv1904.05477OpenAlexW2937989677MaRDI QIDQ822444FDOQ822444

Authors: Candost Akkaya, A. Kovner 

Publication date: 22 September 2021

Published in: Physics Letters B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We consider entanglement entropy between two halves of space separated by a plane, in the theory of free photon in 3+1 dimensions. We show how to separate local gauge invariant quantities that belong to the two spatial regions. We calculate the entanglement entropy by integrating over the degrees of freedom in one half space using an approximation that assumes slow variation of the magnetic fields in longitudinal direction. We find that the entropy is proportional to the transverse area as expected. Interestingly the entanglement properties of the 2D transverse and longitudinal modes of magnetic field are quite different. While the transverse fields are entangled mostly in the neighborhood of the separation surface as expected, the longitudinal fields are entangled through an infrared mode which extends to large distances from the entanglement surface. This long range entanglement arises due to necessity to solve the no-monopole constraint condition for magnetic field.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.05477

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum optics (81V80) Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in mechanics of particles and systems (70S15) Configurations and arrangements of linear subspaces (14N20) Entanglement measures, concurrencies, separability criteria (81P42)

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