@article {2425, title = {The Speed of Quantum Information Spreading in Chaotic Systems}, year = {2019}, month = {08/19/2019}, abstract = {

We present a general theory of quantum information propagation in chaotic quantum many-body systems. The generic expectation in such systems is that quantum information does not propagate in localized form; instead, it tends to spread out and scramble into a form that is inaccessible to local measurements. To characterize this spreading, we define an information speed via a quench-type experiment and derive a general formula for it as a function of the entanglement density of the initial state. As the entanglement density varies from zero to one, the information speed varies from the entanglement speed to the butterfly speed. We verify that the formula holds both for a quantum chaotic spin chain and in field theories with an AdS/CFT gravity dual. For the second case, we study in detail the dynamics of entanglement in two-sided Vaidya-AdS-Reissner-Nordstrom black branes. We also show that, with an appropriate decoding process, quantum information can be construed as moving at the information speed, and, in the case of AdS/CFT, we show that a locally detectable signal propagates at the information speed in a spatially local variant of the traversable wormhole setup.

}, url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.06993}, author = {Josiah Couch and Stefan Eccles and Phuc Nguyen and Brian Swingle and Shenglong Xu} } @article {2054, title = {Entanglement of purification: from spin chains to holography}, journal = {Journal of High Energy Physics}, year = {2018}, month = {2018/01/22}, pages = {98}, abstract = {

Purification is a powerful technique in quantum physics whereby a mixed quantum state is extended to a pure state on a larger system. This process is not unique, and in systems composed of many degrees of freedom, one natural purification is the one with minimal entanglement. Here we study the entropy of the minimally entangled purification, called the entanglement of purification, in three model systems: an Ising spin chain, conformal field theories holographically dual to Einstein gravity, and random stabilizer tensor networks. We conjecture values for the entanglement of purification in all these models, and we support our conjectures with a variety of numerical and analytical results. We find that such minimally entangled purifications have a number of applications, from enhancing entanglement-based tensor network methods for describing mixed states to elucidating novel aspects of the emergence of geometry from entanglement in the AdS/CFT correspondence.

}, doi = {10.1007/JHEP01(2018)098}, url = {https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007\%2FJHEP01\%282018\%29098$\#$citeas}, author = {Phuc Nguyen and Trithep Devakul and Matthew G. Halbasch and Michael P. Zaletel and Brian Swingle} }