Temperature Dependence of Entanglement of Purification in Presence of Chemical Potential

TL;DR

This paper investigates how temperature and chemical potential influence the entanglement of purification in a holographic field theory with a critical point, revealing new temperature-dependent terms and critical behavior near the phase transition.

Contribution

It introduces a holographic analysis of entanglement of purification considering temperature and chemical potential, highlighting new temperature-squared terms and critical point effects.

Findings

Entanglement of purification depends on the ratio μ/T, increasing or decreasing accordingly.

In low temperature limit, entanglement always decreases compared to μ=0 case.

Near the critical point, the critical exponent is 0.5, with sign change in T^2 term.

Abstract

Using holographic idea, we study the entanglement of purification in a field theory with a critical point in intermediate and low temperature regime. This theory includes temperature $T$ as well as chemical potential $\mu$. In the intermediate regime, due to chemical potential, we observe that new terms proportional to temperature square appear in the final result of entanglement of purification or equivalently, apart from $T^0$ and $T^4$ terms in the case of $\mu=0$, it contains the terms proportional to $T^2$. Our results also indicate that the entanglement of purification, i.e. the correlation between subsystems, can decrease or increase depending on the value of $\frac{\mu}{T}$ when the other parameters are kept fixed. However, in the low temperature limit, the correlation always decreases, comparing to the $\mu=0$ case, independent of the value of $\frac{\mu}{T}$ when the other parameters do not alter. The existence of a critical point in the theory changes the behavior of entanglement of purification in such a way that the entanglement of purification experiences a maximum or minimum. Moreover, near the critical point, we analytically show that the critical exponent is equal to 0.5 in both regimes and also the term proportional to $T^2$ changes sign and becomes negative in the intermediate regime.