Journal of High Energy Physics (Oct 2022)

Upper bounds of holographic entanglement entropy growth rate for thermofield double states

  • Ze Li,
  • Run-Qiu Yang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP10(2022)072
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 2022, no. 10
pp. 1 – 31

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Abstract We studied the upper bounds of the holographic entanglement entropy growth rate for thermofield double (TFD) states. By comparing the cases of vacuum AdS and charged AdS black holes, we conjecture: for all static planar or spherically symmetric asymptotically Schwarzschild-AdS black holes of same mass density or entropy density, the vacuum AdS black hole gives the maximum entanglement entropy growth rate. We gave proofs by assuming dominant energy condition. We also considered the AdS black hole spacetime with real scalar fields case, where the scalar fields violate the dominant energy condition and the bulk geometry is not asymptotically Schwarzschild-AdS. Numerical results show that this case vacuum black hole still has maximal growth rate if we fixed entropy. However, in the case of fixed energy, vacuum case has maximal growth rate of entanglement entropy only under standard quantization scheme.

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