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Saturation of the Quantum Null Energy Condition in Far-From-Equilibrium Systems

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arxiv 1710.09837 v1 pith:YBWKTJTJ submitted 2017-10-26 hep-th gr-qc

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The Quantum Null Energy Condition (QNEC) is a new local energy condition that a general Quantum Field Theory (QFT) is believed to satisfy, relating the classical null energy condition (NEC) to the second functional derivative of the entanglement entropy in the corresponding null direction. We present the first series of explicit computations of QNEC in a strongly coupled QFT, using holography. We consider the vacuum, thermal equilibrium, a homogeneous far-from-equilibrium quench as well as a colliding system that violates NEC. For vacuum and the thermal phase QNEC is always weaker than NEC. While for the homogeneous quench QNEC is satisfied with a finite gap, we find the interesting result that the colliding system can saturate QNEC, depending on the null direction.

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  1. The Quantum Null Energy Condition and Entanglement Entropy in Quenches

    hep-th 2019-09 conditional novelty 6.0 of 10

    The QNEC gives a universal upper bound on the quadratic growth rate of quench entanglement entropy, and this bound is saturated by boundary state quenches.

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