Mutual information and the structure of entanglement in quantum field theory

Details Mutual information and the structure of entanglement in quantum field theory Mutual information and the structure of entanglement in quantum field theory

2010-10-19

arxiv.org/abs/1010.4038v1

Physics

Quantum Physics

13 pages, 5 figures

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I study the mutual information between spatial subsystems in a variety of scale invariant quantum field theories. While it is derived from the bare entanglement entropy, the mutual information offers a more refined probe of the entanglement structure of quantum field theories because it remains finite in the continuum limit. I argue that the mutual information has certain universal singularities that are a manifestation of the idea of "entanglement per scale". Moreover, I propose a method, based on an ansatz for higher dimensional twist operators, to compute the entanglement entropy, Renyi entropy, and mutual information in a general quantum field theory. The relevance of these results to the search for renormalization group monotones, to holographic duality, and to entanglement based simulation methods for many body systems are all discussed.

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