The Page curve for reflected entropy
Abstract
We study the reflected entropy SR in the West Coast Model, a toy model of black hole evaporation consisting of JT gravity coupled to end-of-the-world branes. We demonstrate the validity of the holographic duality relating it to the entanglement wedge cross section away from phase transitions. Further, we analyze the important non-perturbative effects that smooth out the discontinuity in the SR phase transition. By performing the gravitational path integral, we obtain the reflected entanglement spectrum analytically. The spectrum takes a simple form consisting of superselection sectors, which we interpret as a direct sum of geometries, a disconnected one and a connected one involving a closed universe. We find that area fluctuations of O (√{GN}) spread out the SR phase transition in the canonical ensemble, analogous to the entanglement entropy phase transition. We also consider a Renyi generalization of the reflected entropy and show that the location of the phase transition varies as a function of the Renyi parameter.
- Publication:
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Journal of High Energy Physics
- Pub Date:
- June 2022
- DOI:
- 10.1007/JHEP06(2022)089
- arXiv:
- arXiv:2201.11730
- Bibcode:
- 2022JHEP...06..089A
- Keywords:
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- AdS-CFT Correspondence;
- Gauge-Gravity Correspondence;
- Black Holes in String Theory;
- High Energy Physics - Theory;
- General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology;
- Quantum Physics
- E-Print:
- 25 pages, 11 pretty figures, minor clarifications added and typos fixed in v2, typo fixed in v3