Subregions, Minimal Surfaces, and Entropy in Semiclassical Gravity
arXiv:1805.12145
Abstract
For a large class of density matrices in semiclassical gravity, it is shown that the reduced density matrix which corresponds to tracing over the degrees of freedom in a spatial subregion is dominated by states for which the area of the boundary of the subregion is minimised. In the semiclassical limit, the entropy of the reduced density matrix is found to have a leading order contribution equal to one quarter of the minimal area in natural units. This is consistent with the Ryu-Takayanagi conjecture. An extension to higher derivative theories of gravity is established, for which the area is replaced by a dynamical generalisation of the Wald entropy.
arXiv comment28 pages, 10 figures. Fixed typos and errors, added a few clarifications. Comments welcome
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