Quantum Null Energy Condition and its (non)saturation in 2d CFTs

We consider the Quantum Null Energy Condition (QNEC) for holographic conformal field theories in two spacetime dimensions (CFT\(_2\)). We show that QNEC saturates for all states dual to vacuum solutions of AdS\(_3\) Einstein gravity, including systems that are far from thermal equilibrium. If the Ry...

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Published in:arXiv.org 2019-03
Main Authors: Ecker, Christian, Grumiller, Daniel, Wilke van der Schee, Sheikh-Jabbari, Shahin, Stanzer, Philipp
Format: Article
Language:English
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Entanglement
Half spaces
Saturation
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Summary:We consider the Quantum Null Energy Condition (QNEC) for holographic conformal field theories in two spacetime dimensions (CFT\(_2\)). We show that QNEC saturates for all states dual to vacuum solutions of AdS\(_3\) Einstein gravity, including systems that are far from thermal equilibrium. If the Ryu-Takayanagi surface encounters bulk matter QNEC does not need to be saturated, whereby we give both analytical and numerical examples. In particular, for CFT\(_2\) with a global quench dual to AdS\(_3\)-Vaidya geometries we find a curious half-saturation of QNEC for large entangling regions. We also address order one corrections from quantum backreactions of a scalar field in AdS\(_3\) dual to a primary operator of dimension \(h\) in a large central charge expansion and explicitly compute both, the backreacted Ryu--Takayanagi surface part and the bulk entanglement contribution to EE and QNEC. At leading order for small entangling regions the contribution from bulk EE exactly cancels the contribution from the back-reacted Ryu-Takayanagi surface, but at higher orders in the size of the region the contributions are almost equal while QNEC is not saturated. For a half-space entangling region we find that QNEC is gapped by \(h/4\) in the large \(h\) expansion.
ISSN:2331-8422