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Modular Hamiltonian for (holographic) excited states

arXiv:2002.04637 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.102.026021

Abstract

In this work we study the Tomita-Takesaki construction for a family of excited states that, in a strongly coupled CFT - at large -, correspond to coherent states in an asymptotically AdS spacetime geometry. We compute the modular flow and modular Hamiltonian associated to these excited states in the Rindler wedge and for a ball shaped entangling surface. Using holography, one can compute the bulk modular flow and construct the Tomita-Takesaki theory for these cases. We also discuss generalizations of the entanglement regions in the bulk and how to estimate the modular Hamiltonian in a large N approximation. Finally we present a holographic formula, based on the BDHM prescription, to compute the modular evolution of operators in the corresponding CFT algebra.

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