Entanglement entropy and vacuum states in Schwarzschild geometry

TL;DR

This paper investigates the additivity conjecture for quantum states around Schwarzschild black holes, showing that the Hartle-Hawking vacuum state aligns with the conjecture and exploring other vacua for consistency.

Contribution

It demonstrates that the Hartle-Hawking vacuum does not violate the additivity conjecture and analyzes entanglement entropy in various static vacua.

Findings

Hartle-Hawking vacuum does not violate additivity

Entanglement entropy calculations support additivity in Schwarzschild spacetime

Other static vacua are consistent with the additivity conjecture

Abstract

Recently, it was proposed that there must be either large violation of the additivity conjecture or a set of disentangled states of the black hole in the AdS/CFT correspondence. In this paper, we study the additivity conjecture for quantum states of fields around the Schwarzschild black hole. In the eternal Schwarzschild spacetime, the entanglement entropy of the Hawking radiation is calculated assuming that the vacuum state is the Hartle-Hawking vacuum. In the additivity conjecture, we need to consider the state which gives minimal output entropy of a quantum channel. The Hartle-Hawking vacuum state does not give the minimal output entropy which is consistent with the additivity conjecture. We study the entanglement entropy in other static vacua and show that it is consistent with the additivity conjecture.