2009

Reduced density matrix and internal dynamics for multicomponent regions

Casini, H., Huerta, M.

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We find the density matrix corresponding to the vacuum state of a massless Dirac field in two dimensions reduced to a region of the space formed by several disjoint intervals.

  • We calculate explicitly its spectral decomposition.
  • The imaginary powers of the density matrix is a unitary operator implementing an internal time flow (the modular flow).
  • We show that in the case of more than one interval this evolution is non-local, producing both, advance in the causal structure and "teleportation" between the disjoint intervals.

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