11–12 Jan 2017
Europe/London timezone

A first law for entanglement rates

11 Jan 2017, 16:40
25m
CM107 (Department of Mathematical Science)

CM107

Department of Mathematical Science

Speaker

Mr Ronald Rodgers (University of Southampton)

Description

The first law of entanglement entropy states that under a perturbation of the state of a CFT, the change in entanglement entropy is proportional to the change in energy. We use holography to study entanglement entropy in conformal field theories perturbed by a source linear in time. Under certain assumptions, we find that the first law may be violated, however the rates of change of the entanglement entropy and energy are proportional. An explicit example is presented for CFTs deformed by marginal scalar operators.

Primary author

Mr Ronald Rodgers (University of Southampton)

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