Comments on Entanglement Propagation

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We extend our work on entanglement propagation following a local quench in 2+1 dimensional holographic conformal field theories.

• We find that entanglement propagates along an emergent lightcone, whose speed of propagation $v_E$ seems distinct from other measures of quantum information spreading.
• We compare the relations we find to information and hydrodynamic velocities in strongly coupled 2+1 dimensional theories.
• While early-time entanglement velocities corresponding to small entangling regions are numerically close to the butterfly velocity, late-time entanglement velocities for large regions show less regularity.