The Markov gap for geometric reflected entropy

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DOI10.1007/JHEP10(2021)047zbMATH Open1476.83138arXiv2107.00009OpenAlexW3205592378MaRDI QIDQ825652FDOQ825652


Authors: Patrick Hayden, Onkar Parrikar, Jonathan Sorce Edit this on Wikidata


Publication date: 17 December 2021

Published in: Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The reflected entropy SR(A:B) of a density matrix hoAB is a bipartite correlation measure lower-bounded by the quantum mutual information I(A:B). In holographic states satisfying the quantum extremal surface formula, where the reflected entropy is related to the area of the entanglement wedge cross-section, there is often an order-N2 gap between SR and I. We provide an information-theoretic interpretation of this gap by observing that SRI is related to the fidelity of a particular Markov recovery problem that is impossible in any state whose entanglement wedge cross-section has a nonempty boundary; for this reason, we call the quantity SRI the Markov gap. We then prove that for time-symmetric states in pure AdS3 gravity, the Markov gap is universally lower bounded by log(2)ellextAdS/2GN times the number of endpoints of the cross-section. We provide evidence that this lower bound continues to hold in the presence of bulk matter, and comment on how it might generalize above three bulk dimensions. Finally, we explore the Markov recovery problem controlling SRI using fixed area states. This analysis involves deriving a formula for the quantum fidelity -- in fact, for all the sandwiched R'enyi relative entropies -- between fixed area states with one versus two fixed areas, which may be of independent interest. We discuss, throughout the paper, connections to the general theory of multipartite entanglement in holography.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.00009




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