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Holographic cone of average entropies

Bartłomiej Czech, Sirui Shuai

2022Communications Physics21 citationsDOIOpen Access PDF

Abstract

Abstract The holographic entropy cone identifies entanglement entropies of field theory regions, which are consistent with representing semiclassical spacetimes under gauge/gravity (holographic) duality. It is currently known up to five regions. Here we point out that average entropies of p -partite subsystems can be similarly analyzed for arbitrarily many regions. We conjecture that the holographic cone of average entropies is simplicial and specify all its bounding inequalities and extreme rays, which combine features of perfect tensor and bipartite entanglement. Heuristically, the conjecture posits that bipartite entanglement achieves the most efficient purification consistent with a holographic spacetime interpretation. We also explain that the extreme forms of entanglement allowed by our conjecture are realized by evaporating black holes.

Topics & Concepts

Quantum entanglementConjectureHolographyBipartite graphTheoretical physicsPhysicsDuality (order theory)Entropy (arrow of time)Semiclassical physicsMathematical physicsMathematicsQuantum mechanicsPure mathematicsCombinatoricsGraphQuantumBlack Holes and Theoretical PhysicsCosmology and Gravitation TheoriesNoncommutative and Quantum Gravity Theories