Momentum space entanglement from the Wilsonian effective action

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Date
2022
Authors
Martins Costa, Matheus H.
van den Brink, Jeroen
Nogueira, Flavio S.
Krein, Gastão I.
Volume
106
Issue
6
Journal
Physical review : D : covering particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology
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Woodbury, NY : Inst.
Abstract

The entanglement between momentum modes of a quantum field theory at different scales is not as well studied as its counterpart in real space, despite the natural connection with the Wilsonian idea of integrating out the high-momentum degrees of freedom. Here, we push such a connection further by developing a novel method to calculate the Rényi and entanglement entropies between slow and fast modes, which is based on the Wilsonian effective action at a given scale. This procedure is applied to the perturbative regime of some scalar theories, comparing the lowest-order results with those from the literature and interpreting them in terms of Feynman diagrams. This method is easily generalized to higher-order or nonperturbative calculations. It has the advantage of avoiding matrix diagonalizations of other techniques.

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CC BY 4.0 Unported