The Ryu-Takayanagi conjecture provides a holographic description for the entanglement entropy for the strongly coupled holographic CFTs in the semi-classical limit. It proposes that the entanglement entropy is given by the area of the minimal homologous surface in the dual bulk. We show that the common terms of the entanglement entropy for the free massless fermions or bosons on a torus in the high-temperature expansion can be described by the sum of the signed area of extremal surfaces in the BTZ spacetime. The resulting EE and the corresponding bunch of the exgremal surfaces have preferable properties rather than those from the Ryu-Takayanagi conjecture.The Ryu-Takayanagi conjecture provides a holographic description for the entanglement entropy for the strongly coupled holographic CFTs in the semi-classical limit. It proposes that the entanglement entropy is given by the area of the minimal homologous surface in the dual bulk. We show that the common terms of the entanglement entropy for the free massless fermions or bosons on a torus in the high-temperature expansion can be described by the sum of the signed area of extremal surfaces in the BTZ spacetime. The resulting EE and the corresponding bunch of the exgremal surfaces have preferable properties rather than those from the Ryu-Takayanagi conjecture.

arXiv:2011.00407Nov 1, 20200 citations

Holographic Shannon Entropy: The Outer Entropy of Entanglement Wedges

Sean J. Weinberg

We introduce a simple geometrical construction similar to covariant holographic entanglement entropy but with the addition of a new term proportional to boundary region volume. This new procedure has properties strongly resembling classical Shannon entropy of probability distributions rather than von Neumann entropy, so we call the quantity holographic Shannon entropy. The holographic Shannon entropy of a region $A$ is divergent in AdS/CFT, but upon regulation, it appears to be equal to the outer entropy of the entanglement wedge of $A$ with the entanglement wedge of the complement of $A$ held fixed. The construction is unambiguous when applied to compact surfaces with convex shape in general spacetimes obeying the null curvature condition (of which AdS with a regulator is a special case). In this context we prove that holographic Shannon entropy obeys monotonicity, a key property of Shannon entropy, as well as all known balanced inequalities of dynamical holographic entanglement entropy. In the static case, we explain why there must exist some classical probability distribution on random variables locally distributed on the boundary with the property that the Shannon entropies of all marginals are exactly reproduced by the holographic Shannon entropy formula.We introduce a simple geometrical construction similar to covariant holographic entanglement entropy but with the addition of a new term proportional to boundary region volume. This new procedure has properties strongly resembling classical Shannon entropy of probability distributions rather than von Neumann entropy, so we call the quantity holographic Shannon entropy. The holographic Shannon entropy of a region $A$ is divergent in AdS/CFT, but upon regulation, it appears to be equal to the outer entropy of the entanglement wedge of $A$ with the entanglement wedge of the complement of $A$ held fixed. The construction is unambiguous when applied to compact surfaces with convex shape in general spacetimes obeying the null curvature condition (of which AdS with a regulator is a special case). In this context we prove that holographic Shannon entropy obeys monotonicity, a key property of Shannon entropy, as well as all known balanced inequalities of dynamical holographic entanglement entropy. In the static case, we explain why there must exist some classical probability distribution on random variables locally distributed on the boundary with the property that the Shannon entropies of all marginals are exactly reproduced by the holographic Shannon entropy formula.

arXiv:1905.03777May 9, 20190 citations

Holographic Entanglement Entropy

Mukund Rangamani, Tadashi Takayanagi

Lecture notes in physicsJan 1, 2017187 citations

Holographic informational properties for a specific Einstein-Maxwell-dilaton gravity theory

Guoyang Fu, Peng Liu, Huajie Gong +2 more

We study the holographic information quantities, including the holographic entanglement entropy (HEE), the holographic mutual information (HMI) and the minimum cross section of the entanglement wedge (EWCS), over a special black brane geometry, which has a vanishing ground-state entropy. Thanks to the zero entropy density at the ground state, we expect to extract novel, even singular informational properties in the zero-temperature limit. Surprisingly, we do not observe any singular behavior of entanglement-related physical quantities in the zero-temperature limit. Nevertheless, we find a peculiar property from this model that in the low-temperature region, the HEE decreases with the temperature, which is contrary to that in most holographic models. We argue that this novel phenomenon is brought by the singular property of the zero-temperature limit. In addition, we also compare the features of the information quantities in this special black brane geometry with those in Reissner-Nordstrom anti--de Sitter (RN-AdS) black brane geometry. It is shown that the HEE and HMI of this vanishing ground-state entropy model are always larger than those of RN-AdS geometry, while the EWCS behaves oppositely. Our results indicate that the HMI and EWCS could have different abilities in describing mixed state entanglement.We study the holographic information quantities, including the holographic entanglement entropy (HEE), the holographic mutual information (HMI) and the minimum cross section of the entanglement wedge (EWCS), over a special black brane geometry, which has a vanishing ground-state entropy. Thanks to the zero entropy density at the ground state, we expect to extract novel, even singular informational properties in the zero-temperature limit. Surprisingly, we do not observe any singular behavior of entanglement-related physical quantities in the zero-temperature limit. Nevertheless, we find a peculiar property from this model that in the low-temperature region, the HEE decreases with the temperature, which is contrary to that in most holographic models. We argue that this novel phenomenon is brought by the singular property of the zero-temperature limit. In addition, we also compare the features of the information quantities in this special black brane geometry with those in Reissner-Nordstrom anti--de Sitter (RN-AdS) black brane geometry. It is shown that the HEE and HMI of this vanishing ground-state entropy model are always larger than those of RN-AdS geometry, while the EWCS behaves oppositely. Our results indicate that the HMI and EWCS could have different abilities in describing mixed state entanglement.

arXiv:2007.06001Physical review. D/Physical review. D.Jul 30, 202115 citations

Holographic Entanglement Entropy

Mukund Rangamani, Tadashi Takayanagi

arXiv:1609.01287Lecture notes in physicsJan 1, 2017332 citations

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is divergent in AdS/CFT, but upon regulation, it appears to be equal to the outer entropy of the entanglement wedge of

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with the entanglement wedge of the complement of

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held fixed. The construction is unambiguous when applied to compact surfaces with convex shape in general spacetimes obeying the null curvature condition (of which AdS with a regulator is a special case). In this context we prove that holographic Shannon entropy obeys monotonicity, a key property of Shannon entropy, as well as all known balanced inequalities of dynamical holographic entanglement entropy. In the static case, we explain why there must exist some classical probability distribution on random variables locally distributed on the boundary with the property that the Shannon entropies of all marginals are exactly reproduced by the holographic Shannon entropy formula.