Pulling the boundary into the bulk
Abstract
Motivated by the ability to consistently apply the Ryu-Takayanagi prescription for general convex surfaces and the relationship between entanglement and geometry in tensor networks, we introduce a novel, covariant bulk object - the holographic slice. The holographic slice is found by considering the continual removal of short-range information in a boundary state. It thus provides a natural interpretation as the bulk dual of a series of coarse-grained holographic states. The slice possesses many desirable properties that provide consistency checks for its boundary interpretation. These include the monotonicity of both area and entanglement entropy, uniqueness, and the inability to probe beyond late-time black hole horizons. Additionally, the holographic slice illuminates physics behind entanglement shadows, as minimal-area extremal surfaces anchored to a coarse-grained boundary may probe entanglement shadows. This lets the slice flow through shadows. To aid in developing intuition for these slices, many explicit examples of holographic slices are investigated. Finally, the relationship to tensor networks and renormalization (particularly in AdS/CFT) is discussed.
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- Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
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- USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1459238
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- OSTI ID: 1506336
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- AC02-05CH11231
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- Published Article
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- Physical Review D
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- Journal Name: Physical Review D Journal Volume: 98 Journal Issue: 2; Journal ID: ISSN 2470-0010
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- American Physical Society
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- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS; 79 ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS
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Nomura, Yasunori, Rath, Pratik, and Salzetta, Nico. Pulling the boundary into the bulk. United States: N. p., 2018.
Web. doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.98.026010.
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title = {Pulling the boundary into the bulk},
author = {Nomura, Yasunori and Rath, Pratik and Salzetta, Nico},
abstractNote = {Motivated by the ability to consistently apply the Ryu-Takayanagi prescription for general convex surfaces and the relationship between entanglement and geometry in tensor networks, we introduce a novel, covariant bulk object - the holographic slice. The holographic slice is found by considering the continual removal of short-range information in a boundary state. It thus provides a natural interpretation as the bulk dual of a series of coarse-grained holographic states. The slice possesses many desirable properties that provide consistency checks for its boundary interpretation. These include the monotonicity of both area and entanglement entropy, uniqueness, and the inability to probe beyond late-time black hole horizons. Additionally, the holographic slice illuminates physics behind entanglement shadows, as minimal-area extremal surfaces anchored to a coarse-grained boundary may probe entanglement shadows. This lets the slice flow through shadows. To aid in developing intuition for these slices, many explicit examples of holographic slices are investigated. Finally, the relationship to tensor networks and renormalization (particularly in AdS/CFT) is discussed.},
doi = {10.1103/PhysRevD.98.026010},
journal = {Physical Review D},
number = 2,
volume = 98,
place = {United States},
year = {2018},
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https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.98.026010
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