A covariant regulator for entanglement entropy: proofs of the Bekenstein bound and QNEC
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| author | Kudler-Flam, Jonah Leutheusser, Samuel Rahman, Adel A. Satishchandran, Gautam Speranza, Antony J. |
| author_facet | Kudler-Flam, Jonah Leutheusser, Samuel Rahman, Adel A. Satishchandran, Gautam Speranza, Antony J. |
| contents | While von Neumann entropies for subregions in quantum field theory universally contain ultraviolet divergences, differences between von Neumann entropies are finite and well-defined in many physically relevant scenarios. We demonstrate that such a notion of entropy differences can be rigorously defined in quantum field theory in a general curved spacetime by introducing a novel, covariant regulator for the entropy based on the modular crossed product. This regulator associates a type II von Neumann algebra to each spacetime subregion, resulting in well-defined renormalized entropies. This prescription reproduces formulas for entropy differences that coincide with heuristic formulas widely used in the literature, and we prove that it satisfies desirable properties such as unitary invariance and concavity. As an application, we provide proofs of the Bekenstein bound and the quantum null energy condition, formulated directly in terms of vacuum-subtracted von Neumann entropies. |
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| spellingShingle | A covariant regulator for entanglement entropy: proofs of the Bekenstein bound and QNEC Kudler-Flam, Jonah Leutheusser, Samuel Rahman, Adel A. Satishchandran, Gautam Speranza, Antony J. High Energy Physics - Theory General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology Quantum Physics While von Neumann entropies for subregions in quantum field theory universally contain ultraviolet divergences, differences between von Neumann entropies are finite and well-defined in many physically relevant scenarios. We demonstrate that such a notion of entropy differences can be rigorously defined in quantum field theory in a general curved spacetime by introducing a novel, covariant regulator for the entropy based on the modular crossed product. This regulator associates a type II von Neumann algebra to each spacetime subregion, resulting in well-defined renormalized entropies. This prescription reproduces formulas for entropy differences that coincide with heuristic formulas widely used in the literature, and we prove that it satisfies desirable properties such as unitary invariance and concavity. As an application, we provide proofs of the Bekenstein bound and the quantum null energy condition, formulated directly in terms of vacuum-subtracted von Neumann entropies. |
| title | A covariant regulator for entanglement entropy: proofs of the Bekenstein bound and QNEC |
| topic | High Energy Physics - Theory General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology Quantum Physics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.07646 |