Pith. sign in

REVIEW 4 cited by

Is entanglement a probe of confinement?

Not yet reviewed by Pith; the record is open.

Re-run · record.json Download PDF Read on arXiv ↗

This paper has not been read by Pith yet. Machine review is queued; the pith claim, tier, and objections will appear here once it completes.

SPECIMEN: schema-true, not a live event

T0 review · schema-true

One-sentence machine reading of the paper's core claim.

pith:XXXXXXXX · record.json · timestamp

arxiv 2010.09392 v2 pith:ZQ7FWMRA submitted 2020-10-19 hep-th hep-phquant-ph

Niko Jokela , Javier G. Subils This is my paper · ORCID
classification hep-thhep-phquant-ph
keywords entanglementtheoriesconfinementconfiningentropyfamilyfieldfixed
verification ladder T0 review T1 audit T2 compute T3 formal
0 comments
read the original abstract

We study various entanglement measures in a one-parameter family of three-dimensional, strongly coupled Yang-Mills-Chern-Simons field theories by means of their dual supergravity descriptions. A generic field theory in this family possesses a mass gap but does not have a linear quark-antiquark potential. For the two limiting values of the parameter, the theories flow either to a fixed point or to a confining vacuum in the infrared. We show that entanglement measures are unable to discriminate confining theories from non-confining ones with a mass gap. This lends support on the idea that the phase transition of entanglement entropy at large-N can be caused just by the presence of a sizable scale in a theory and just by itself should not be taken as a signal of confinement. We also examine flows passing close to a fixed point at intermediate energy scales and find that the holographic entanglement entropy, the mutual information, and the F-functions for strips and disks quantitatively match the conformal values for a range of energies.

Discussion (0). Continue with ORCID to comment.

Forward citations

Cited by 4 Pith papers

Reviewed papers in the Pith corpus that reference this work. Sorted by Pith novelty score. Full citation record

  1. Determination of thermodynamics from entanglement entropy in the finite-density O(N) model

    hep-th 2026-07 accept novelty 7.0 of 10

    The derivative of entanglement entropy with respect to subregion volume equals the thermal entropy density in the large-subregion limit, verified via lattice simulations of the finite-density O(4) model using dual wor...

  2. Complexity measures in holographic cascading theories with multiscale dynamics

    hep-th 2026-08 accept novelty 6.0 of 10

    In holographic B8 gauge theories, complexity growth flattens near a walking conformal regime, while Krylov oscillation periods track the infrared scale and persist in screened, non-confining phases.

  3. Entanglement entropy of a color flux tube in (1+1)D Yang-Mills theory

    hep-lat 2024-11 accept novelty 6.0 of 10

    For (1+1)D lattice Yang-Mills with static quarks, the flux-tube entanglement entropy is exactly F log(dim R), where F counts boundary crossings and dim R is the color representation dimension.

  4. Thermal and chemical response from entanglement entropy

    hep-th 2026-03 conditional novelty 5.0 of 10

    The derivative of entanglement entropy with respect to region size equals the thermal entropy density, and a generalized Maxwell relation connects it to charge density — tested nonperturbatively in the 3D O(4) model.

Pith tools