Time Evolution after Double Trace Deformation

TL;DR

This paper investigates the effects of nonlocal double trace deformations on a 2D conformal field theory, revealing modifications in bulk causal structure and shockwave-like entanglement dynamics after the deformation.

Contribution

It introduces a study of nonlocal double trace deformations involving bulk local operators and analyzes their impact on bulk causality and entanglement evolution.

Findings

Averaged null energies can be negative with suitable couplings.

Bulk causal structure is modified from classical background.

Entanglement entropy exhibits shockwave-like time evolution.

Abstract

In this paper, we consider double trace deformation to single CFT${}_2$, and study time evolution after the deformation. The double trace deformation we consider is nonlocal: composed of two local operators placed at separate points. We study two types of local operators: one is usual local operator in CFT, and the other is HKLL bulk local operator, which is still operator in CFT but has properties as bulk local operator. We compute null energy and averaged null energy in the bulk in both types of deformations. We confirmed that, with the suitable choice of couplings, averaged null energies are negative. This implies causal structure is modified in the bulk, from classical background. We then calculate time evolution of entanglement entropy and entanglement Renyi entropy after double trace deformation. We find both quantities are found to show peculiar shockwave-like time evolution.