Physics Letters B 793 (2019) 104–109
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Holographic entanglement negativity conjecture for adjacent intervals
in AdS
3
/CFT
2
Parul Jain
a,b
, Vinay Malvimat
c
, Sayid Mondal
c
, Gautam Sengupta
c,∗
a
Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Cagliari Cittadella Universitaria, 09042 Monserrato, Italy
b
INFN, Sezione di Cagliari, Italy
c
Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, Kanpur 208016, India
a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t
Article history:
Received
12 September 2018
Received
in revised form 18 March 2019
Accepted
15 April 2019
Available
online 17 April 2019
Editor:
N. Lambert
We propose a holographic entanglement negativity conjecture involving the bulk geometry, for mixed
states of adjacent intervals in (1 + 1)-dimensional dual conformal field theories through the Ad S/CFT
correspondence.
The holographic entanglement negativity is obtained from a specific algebraic sum of
the geodesics anchored on respective intervals on the boundary which reduces to the holographic mutual
information between them. Utilizing our conjecture we obtain the entanglement negativity of adjacent
intervals in zero and finite temperature (1 + 1)-dimensional holographic conformal field theories dual to
the bulk AdS
3
vacuum and the Euclidean BTZ black hole respectively. Our holographic conjecture exactly
reproduces the conformal field theory results obtained through the replica technique, in the large central
charge limit. We briefly elucidate the corresponding issue for the AdS
d+1
/CFT
d
scenario.
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1. Introduction
Quantum entanglement in recent times has impacted an ex-
pansive
list of theoretical issues from condensed matter physics
to quantum gravity through the holographic AdS /CFT correspon-
dence
[1–5]. This geometric connection has allowed the character-
ization
of quantum entanglement in extended systems like holo-
graphic
conformal field theories. For bipartite quantum systems in
a pure state this involves the entanglement entropy which is de-
fined
as the von Neumann entropy of the reduced density matrix.
In a series of interesting communications Calabrese et al. advanced
a comprehensive procedure to compute the entanglement entropy
of (1 + 1)-dimensional conformal field theories (CFT
1+1
) [6,7]uti-
lizing
the replica technique.
Following
[6], in a seminal work Ryu and Takayanagi pro-
posed
a holographic characterization of the entanglement entropy
in d-dimensional conformal field theories (CFT
d
), involving bulk
dual Ad S
d+1
geometries through the AdS /CFT correspondence [8,
9](for
an extensive review see [10]). According to the Ryu and
Takayanagi (RT) conjecture the universal part of the entanglement
entropy of a subsystem in a dual CFT
d
was described by the area
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Corresponding author.
E-mail
addresses: parul.jain@ca.infn.it (P. Jain), vinaymm@iitk.ac.in
(V. Malvimat),
sayidphy@iitk.ac.in (S. Mondal), sengupta@iitk.ac.in (G. Sengupta).
of a co-dimension two bulk AdS
d+1
static minimal surface homol-
ogous
to the subsystem. For the Ad S
3
/CFT
2
scenario the static
minimal surface reduces to a space like geodesic in the bulk AdS
3
geometry anchored on the appropriate spatial interval in the dual
CFT
1+1
. The holographic entanglement entropy obtained from the
RT conjecture exactly reproduces the corresponding CFT
1+1
re-
sults
obtained through the replica technique in the large central
charge limit.
It
is well known however in quantum information theory that
the entanglement entropy ceases to be a valid measure for the
characterization of mixed state entanglement where it receives
contributions from irrelevant correlations. This is a complex issue
in quantum information theory and necessitates the introduction
of suitable entanglement measures for the distillable entanglement.
In a seminal communication Vidal and Werner [11] addressed this
issue and proposed a computable measure termed entanglement
negativity which provides an upper bound on the distillable entan-
glement whose
non convexity was subsequently demonstrated by
Plenio in [12]. In the recent past Calabrese et al. in [13–15]uti-
lized
an alternative replica technique to compute the entanglement
negativity for mixed states in both zero and finite temperature
CFT
1+1
.
Naturally
the above developments lead to the significant is-
sue
of a holographic description for the entanglement negativ-
ity
involving the bulk geometry for dual conformal field theo-
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SCOAP
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