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Title: Modular Hamiltonians for deformed half-spaces and the averaged null energy condition

Journal Article · · Journal of High Energy Physics (Online)
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  1. Univ. of Illinois, Urbana, IL (United States). Dept. of Physics

We study modular Hamiltonians corresponding to the vacuum state for deformed half-spaces in relativistic quantum field theories on R1,d-1. We show that in addition to the usual boost generator, there is a contribution to the modular Hamiltonian at first order in the shape deformation, proportional to the integral of the null components of the stress tensor along the Rindler horizon. We use this fact along with monotonicity of relative entropy to prove the averaged null energy condition in Minkowski space-time. This subsequently gives a new proof of the Hofman-Maldacena bounds on the parameters appearing in CFT three-point functions. Our main technical advance involves adapting newly developed perturbative methods for calculating entanglement entropy to the problem at hand. Our methods were recently used to prove certain results on the shape dependence of entanglement in CFTs and here we generalize these results to excited states and real time dynamics. Finally, we discuss the AdS/CFT counterpart of this result, making connection with the recently proposed gravitational dual for modular Hamiltonians in holographic theories.

Research Organization:
Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE
Grant/Contract Number:
FG02-13ER42001; SC0009932
OSTI ID:
1395542
Journal Information:
Journal of High Energy Physics (Online), Vol. 2016, Issue 9; ISSN 1029-8479
Publisher:
Springer BerlinCopyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Citation Metrics:
Cited by: 151 works
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