Lattice QCD study of static quark and antiquark correlations via entanglement entropies

Abstract

We study the color correlation between static quark and antiquark ($q\bar{q}$) in the confined phase via reduced density matrices $\rho$ defined in color space. We adopt the standard Wilson gauge action and perform quenched calculations with the Coulomb gauge condition for reduced density matrices. The spatial volumes are $L^3=8^3$, $16^3$, $32^3$ and $48^3$, with the gauge couplings $\beta =5.7$, 5.8 and 6.0. Each element of the reduced density matrix in the sub space of quarks' color degrees of freedom of the $q\bar{q}$ pair is calculated from staples defined by link variables. As a result, we find that $\rho$ is well written by a linear combination of the strongly correlated $q\bar{q}$ pair state with the color-singlet component and the uncorrelated $q\bar{q}$ pair state with random color configurations. We compute the Renyi entropies $S^{\mathrm{Renyi}}$ from $\rho$ to investigate the $q\bar{q}$ distance dependence of the color correlation of the $q\bar{q}$ pair and find that the color correlation is quenched as the distance increases.

arXiv comment10 pages, 15 figures

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