Entanglement Entropy and Thermal Phase Transitions from Curvature Singularities

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Hauptverfasser: Barbosa, Sergio, Fichet, Sylvain, Megias, Eugenio, Quiros, Mariano
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author Barbosa, Sergio
Fichet, Sylvain
Megias, Eugenio
Quiros, Mariano
author_facet Barbosa, Sergio
Fichet, Sylvain
Megias, Eugenio
Quiros, Mariano
contents We study holographic entanglement entropy and revisit thermodynamics and confinement in the dilaton-gravity system. Our analysis focuses on a solvable class of backgrounds that includes AdS and linear dilaton spacetimes as particular cases, with some results extended to general warped metrics. A general lesson is that the behavior of the holographic theory is tied to the bulk curvature singularities. We find that a singular background is confining if and only if i) the singularity coincides with a boundary or ii) it is the linear dilaton. In the former case, for which the singularity cuts off spacetime, we demonstrate that both entanglement entropy and thermodynamics exhibit a first order phase transition. In the linear dilaton case we find instead that both entanglement entropy and thermal phase transitions are of second order. Additionally, along the process we thoroughly derive the radion effective action at quadratic order.
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spellingShingle Entanglement Entropy and Thermal Phase Transitions from Curvature Singularities
Barbosa, Sergio
Fichet, Sylvain
Megias, Eugenio
Quiros, Mariano
High Energy Physics - Theory
We study holographic entanglement entropy and revisit thermodynamics and confinement in the dilaton-gravity system. Our analysis focuses on a solvable class of backgrounds that includes AdS and linear dilaton spacetimes as particular cases, with some results extended to general warped metrics. A general lesson is that the behavior of the holographic theory is tied to the bulk curvature singularities. We find that a singular background is confining if and only if i) the singularity coincides with a boundary or ii) it is the linear dilaton. In the former case, for which the singularity cuts off spacetime, we demonstrate that both entanglement entropy and thermodynamics exhibit a first order phase transition. In the linear dilaton case we find instead that both entanglement entropy and thermal phase transitions are of second order. Additionally, along the process we thoroughly derive the radion effective action at quadratic order.
title Entanglement Entropy and Thermal Phase Transitions from Curvature Singularities
topic High Energy Physics - Theory
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.02899