We explore the constraints following from requiring the area law in the entanglement entropy in the context of loop quantum gravity. We find a unique solution to the single-link wave function in the large j limit, believed to be appropriate in the semiclassical limit. We then generalize our considerations to multilink coherent states, and find that the area law is preserved very generically using our single-link wave function as a building block. Finally, we develop the framework that generates families of multilink states that preserve the area law while avoiding macroscopic entanglement, the space-time analogue of "Schrödinger's cat." We note that these states, defined on a given set of graphs, are the ground states of some local Hamiltonian that can be constructed explicitly. This can potentially shed light on the construction of the appropriate Hamiltonian constraints in the LQG framework.

Area law from loop quantum gravity / Hamma, Alioscia; Hung, Ling-Yan; Marcianò, Antonino; Mingyi Zhang, And. - In: PHYSICAL REVIEW D. - ISSN 2470-0010. - 97:6(2018). [10.1103/PhysRevD.97.064040]

Area law from loop quantum gravity

Alioscia Hamma;
2018

Abstract

We explore the constraints following from requiring the area law in the entanglement entropy in the context of loop quantum gravity. We find a unique solution to the single-link wave function in the large j limit, believed to be appropriate in the semiclassical limit. We then generalize our considerations to multilink coherent states, and find that the area law is preserved very generically using our single-link wave function as a building block. Finally, we develop the framework that generates families of multilink states that preserve the area law while avoiding macroscopic entanglement, the space-time analogue of "Schrödinger's cat." We note that these states, defined on a given set of graphs, are the ground states of some local Hamiltonian that can be constructed explicitly. This can potentially shed light on the construction of the appropriate Hamiltonian constraints in the LQG framework.
2018
Area law from loop quantum gravity / Hamma, Alioscia; Hung, Ling-Yan; Marcianò, Antonino; Mingyi Zhang, And. - In: PHYSICAL REVIEW D. - ISSN 2470-0010. - 97:6(2018). [10.1103/PhysRevD.97.064040]
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