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Long Distance Entanglement of Purification and Reflected Entropy in Conformal Field Theory
Hugo A Camargo1,2, Lucas Hackl3, Michal P Heller1
1Max-Planck-Institut für Gravitationsphysik, Am Mühlenberg 1, Potsdam-Golm 14476, Germany.
Abstract:
Quantifying entanglement properties of mixed states in quantum field theory via entanglement of purification and reflected entropy is a new and challenging subject. In this work, we study both quantities for two spherical subregions far away from each other in the vacuum of a conformal field theory in any number of dimensions. Using lattice techniques, we find an elementary proof that the decay of both the entanglement of purification and reflected entropy is enhanced with respect to the mutual information behavior by a logarithm of the distance between the subregions. In the case of the Ising spin chain at criticality and the related free fermion conformal field theory, we compute also the overall coefficients numerically for the both quantities of interest.
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