Abstract
The thermodynamic entropy of an isolated system is given by its von Neumann entropy. Over the last few years, there has been an intense activity to understand the thermodynamic entropy from the principles of quantum mechanics. More specifically, is there a relation between the (von Neumann) entropy of entanglement between a system and some (separate) environment and the thermodynamic entropy? It is difficult to obtain the relation for many body systems, hence, most of the work in the literature has focused on small number systems. In this work, we consider black holes—which are simple yet macroscopic systems—and show that a direct connection could not be made between the entropy of entanglement and the Hawking temperature. In this work, within the adiabatic approximation, we explicitly show that the Hawking temperature is indeed given by the rate of change of the entropy of entanglement across a black hole’s horizon with regard to the system energy. This is yet other numerical evidence leading to understanding the key features of black-hole thermodynamics from the viewpoint of quantum information theory.
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1 Introduction
Equilibrium statistical mechanics allows a successful description of the thermodynamic properties of matter [1–4]. More importantly, it relates entropy, a phenomenological quantity in thermodynamics, to the volume of a certain region in phase space [5]. The laws of thermodynamics are also equally applicable to quantum mechanical systems. A lot of progress has been made recently in studying the cold trap atoms that are largely isolated from surroundings [6–9]. Furthermore, the availability of Feshbach resonances is shown to be useful to control the strength of interactions, to realize strongly correlated systems, and to drive these systems between different quantum phases in a controlled manner [10–13]. These experiments have raised the possibility of understanding the emergence of thermodynamics from the principles of quantum mechanics. The fundamental questions that one hopes to answer from these investigations are: How do the macroscopic laws of thermodynamics emerge from the reversible quantum dynamics? How should we understand the thermalization of a closed quantum systems? What are the relations between information, thermodynamics, and quantum mechanics [14–19]? While answering these questions for a many body system is out of sight, some important progress has been made by considering simple lattice systems (see, for instance, Refs. [20–23]). In this work, in an attempt to address some of the above questions, our focus is on another simple, yet, macroscopic system—the black hole.
It has long been conjectured that a black hole’s thermodynamic entropy is given by its entropy of entanglement across the horizon [24–30]. However, this has never been directly related to the Hawking temperature [31]. Here we show that:
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The Hawking temperature is given by the rate of change of the entropy of entanglement across a black hole’s horizon with regard to the system energy.
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The information lost across the horizon is related to the black-hole entropy and the laws of black-hole mechanics emerge from entanglement across the horizon.
The model we consider is complementary to other models that investigate the emergence of thermodynamics [14–19]. First, we evaluate the entanglement entropy for a relativistic free scalar fields propagating in the black-hole background, while the simple lattice models that were considered are non-relativistic. Second, quantum entanglement can be unambiguously quantified only for bipartite systems [32, 33]. While the bipartite system is an approximation for applications to many body systems, here, the event horizon provides a natural boundary.
The entanglement of a relativistic free scalar field, as always, is the simplest model to evaluate. However, even for free fields it is difficult to obtain the entanglement entropy. The free fields are Gaussian and these states are entirely characterized by the covariance matrix. It is generally difficult to handle covariance matrices in an infinite-dimensional Hilbert space [33]. There are two ways to calculate the entanglement entropy in the literature. One approach is to use the replica trick which rests on evaluating the partition function on an n-fold cover of the background geometry where a cut is introduced throughout the exterior of the entangling surface [33, 34]. Second we have a direct approach, where the Hamiltonian of the field is discretized and the reduced density matrix is evaluated in the real space. We adopt this approach as the entanglement entropy may have more symmetries than the Lagrangian of the system [35].
To remove the spurious effects due to the coordinate singularity at the horizon,Footnote 1 we consider a Lemaître coordinate, which is explicitly time-dependent [37]. One of the features that we exploit in our computation is that for a fixed Lemaître time coordinate, the Hamiltonian of the scalar field in Schwarzschild space-time reduces to the scalar field Hamiltonian in flat space-time [28].
The procedure we adopt is the following:
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We perturbatively evolve the Hamiltonian about the fixed Lemaître time.
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We obtain the entanglement entropy at different times. We show that at all times, the entanglement entropy satisfies the area law i.e. \(S(\epsilon ) = C(\epsilon ) A\) where \(S(\epsilon )\) is the entanglement entropy evaluated at a given Lemaître time \((\epsilon )\), \(C(\epsilon )\) is the proportionality constant that depends on \(\epsilon \), and A is the area of the black-hole horizon. In other words, the value of the entropy is different at different times.
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We calculate the change in entropy as a function of \(\epsilon \), i.e., \(\Delta S/\Delta \epsilon \). Similarly we calculate the change in energy \(E(\epsilon )\), i.e., \(\Delta E/\Delta \epsilon \).
For several black-hole metrics, we explicitly show that the ratio of the rate of change of energy and the rate of change of entropy is identical to the Hawking temperature.
The outline of the paper is as follows: in Sect. 2, we set up our model Hamiltonian to obtain the entanglement entropy in (\(D+2\))-dimensional space-time. Also, we define the entanglement temperature, which has the same structure as in statistical mechanics, that is, the ratio of the change in total energy to the change in entanglement entropy. In Sect. 3, we numerically show that for different black-hole space-times, the divergence free entanglement temperature matches approximately with the Hawking temperature obtained from the general theory of relativity and its Lovelock generalization. This provides strong evidence toward the interpretation of entanglement entropy as the Bekenstein–Hawking entropy. Finally in Sect. 4, we conclude with a discussion to connect our analysis with the eigenstate thermalization hypothesis for closed quantum systems [22].
Throughout this work, the metric signature we adopt is \((+,-,-,-)\) and we set \(\hbar =k_{B} =c=1\).
2 Model and setup
2.1 Motivation
Before we evaluate the entanglement entropy (EE) of a quantum scalar field propagating in a black-hole background, we briefly discuss the motivation for studying the entanglement entropy of a scalar field. Consider the Einstein–Hilbert action with a positive cosmological constant (\(|\Lambda |\)):
where \(\bar{R}\) is the Ricci scalar and \(M_{_\mathrm{Pl}}\) is the Planck mass. Perturbing the above action w.r.t. the metric \(\bar{g}_{\mu \nu } = g_{\mu \nu } + h_{\mu \nu }\), the action up to second order becomes [28]
The above action corresponds to a massive (\(\Lambda \)) spin-2 field (\(h_{\mu \nu }\)) propagating in the background metric \(g_{\mu \nu }\). Rewriting \(h_{\mu \nu } = M_{_\mathrm{Pl}}^{-1} \epsilon _{\mu \nu } \Phi (x^{\mu })\) [where \(\epsilon _{\mu \nu }\) is the constant polarization tensor], the above action can be written as
which is the action for the massive scalar field propagating in the background metric \(g_{\mu \nu }\). In this work, we consider a massless (\(\Lambda = 0\) corresponding to asymptotically flat space-time) scalar field propagating in a \((D + 2)\)-dimensional spherically symmetric space-time.
2.2 Model
The canonical action for the massless, real scalar field \(\Phi (x^{\mu })\) propagating in \((D + 2)\)-dimensional space-time is
where \(g_{\mu \nu } \) is the spherically symmetric Lemaître line element [37]:
where \(\tau ,\xi \) are the time and radial components in Lemaître coordinates, respectively, r is the radial distance in Schwarzschild coordinates and \(d\Omega _D\) is the D-dimensional angular line element. In order for the line element (5) to describe a black hole, the space-time must contain a singularity (say at \(r = 0\)) and have horizons. We assume that the asymptotically flat space-time contains one non-degenerate event horizon at \(r_h\). The specific forms of f(r) correspond to different space-times.
The Lemaître coordinate system has the following interesting properties:
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The coordinate \(\tau \) is time-like all across \(0< r < \infty \), similarly \(\xi \) is space-like all across \(0< r < \infty \).
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The Lemaître coordinate system does not have coordinate singularity at the horizon.
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This coordinate system is time-dependent. The test particles at rest relative to the reference system are particles moving freely in the given field [37].
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The scalar field propagating in this coordinate system is explicitly time-dependent.
The spherical symmetry of the line element (5) allows us to decompose the normal modes of the scalar field as follows:
where \(i \in \{1,2,\ldots D-1\}\) and \(Z_{_{lm_i}}\)’s are the real hyper-spherical harmonics. We define the following dimensionless parameters: \(\tilde{r}=r/r_h, \tilde{\xi }=\xi /r_h, \tilde{\tau }=\tau /r_h, \tilde{\Phi }_{lm}=r_h \, \Phi _{lm}. \) By the substitution of the orthogonal properties of \(Z_{_{lm_i}}\), the canonical massless scalar field action becomes
The above action contains non-linear time-dependent terms through \(f(\tilde{r})\). Hence, the Hamiltonian obtained from the above action will have a non-linear time-dependence. While the full non-linear time-dependence is necessary to understand the small size black holes, for large size black holes it is sufficient to linearize the above action by fixing the time-slice and performing an infinitesimal transformation about a particular Lemaître time \(\tilde{\tau }\) [38]. More specifically,
where \(\epsilon \) is the infinitesimal Lemaître time. The functional expansion of \(f(\tilde{r})\) about \(\epsilon \) and the following relation between the Lemaître coordinates [37]:
allow us to perform the perturbative expansion in the above action.
After doing the Legendre transformation, the Hamiltonian up to second order in \(\epsilon \) is
where \( H_{_0}\) is the unperturbed scalar field Hamiltonian in the flat space-time, \(V_{_1} \,\text{ and }\,V_{_2}\) are the perturbed parts of the Hamiltonian (for details, see Appendix A). Physically, the above infinitesimal transformations (10) correspond to perturbatively expanding the scalar field about a particular Lemaître time.
2.3 Important observations
The Hamiltonian in Eq. (12) is key equation regarding which we would like to stress the following points: First, in the limit of \(\epsilon \rightarrow 0\), the Hamiltonian reduces to that of a free scalar field propagating in flat space-time [28]. In other words, the zeroth order Hamiltonian is identical for all the space-times. Higher order \(\epsilon \) terms contain information as regards the global space-time structure and, more importantly, the horizon properties.
Second, the Lemaître coordinate is intrinsically time-dependent; the \(\epsilon \) expansion of the Hamiltonian corresponds to the perturbation about the Lemaître time. Here, we assume that the Hamiltonian H undergoes adiabatic evolution and the ground state \(\Psi _{GS}\) is the instantaneous ground state at all Lemaître times. This assumption is valid for large black holes, as Hawking evaporation is not significant. Also, since the line element is time-asymmetric, the vacuum state is the Unruh vacuum. Evaluation of the entanglement entropy for different values of \(\epsilon \) corresponds to different values of Lemaître time. As we will show explicitly in the next section, the entanglement entropy at a given \(\epsilon \) satisfies the area law [\(S(\epsilon ) \propto A\)] and the proportionality constant depends on \(\epsilon \), i.e. \(S(\epsilon ) = C(\epsilon ) A\).
Third, it is not possible to obtain a closed form analytic expression for the density matrix (tracing out the quantum degrees of freedom associated with the scalar field inside a spherical region of radius \(r_h\)) and hence, we need to resort to numerical methods. In order to do so, we take a spatially uniform radial grid, \(\{ r_j\}\), with \(b = r_{j + 1} - r_j\). We discretize the Hamiltonian H in Eq. (12). The procedure to obtain the entanglement entropy for different \(\epsilon \) is similar to the one discussed in Refs. [25, 28]. In this work, we assume that the quantum state corresponding to the discretized Hamiltonian is the ground state with wave function \(\Psi _{GS}(x_1,\ldots ,x_n;y_1,\ldots ,y_{N- n})\). The reduced density matrix \(\rho (\mathbf {y},{\mathbf {y}\,}')\) is obtained by tracing over the first n of the N oscillators,
Fourth, in this work, we use the von Neumann entropy
as the measure of entanglement. In analogy with the microcanonical ensemble picture of equilibrium statistical mechanics, the evaluation of the Hamiltonian H at different infinitesimal Lemaître times, \(\epsilon \), corresponds to setting the system at different internal energies. In analogy we define entanglement temperature [39]:
The above definition is consistent with the statistical mechanical definition of the temperature. In statistical mechanics, the temperature is obtained by evaluating the change in the entropy and energy w.r.t. the thermodynamic quantities. In our case, the entanglement entropy and the energy depend on the Lemaître time, and we have evaluated the change in the entanglement entropy and energy w.r.t. \(\epsilon \). In other words, we calculate the change in the ground state energy (entanglement entropy) for different values of \(\epsilon \) and find the ratio of the change in the ground state energy and change in the EE. As we will show in the next section, EE and energy go linearly with \(\epsilon \) and, hence, the temperature does not depend on \(\epsilon \). While the EE and the energy diverge, their ratio is a non-divergent quantity. To understand this, let us do a dimensional analysis,
where \(A_D\) is the \((D+1)\)-dimensional hyper-surface area. In the thermodynamic limit, by setting L finite with \(N \rightarrow \infty \) and \(b \rightarrow 0\), \(T_{EE}\) in Eq. (16) is finite and independent of \(\epsilon \).
For large N, we show that, in natural units, the above calculated temperature is identical to the Hawking temperature for the corresponding black hole [31]:
Fifth, it is important to note that the above entanglement temperature is non-zero only for \(f(r) \ne 1\). In the case of a flat space-time, our analysis shows that the entanglement temperature vanishes, and we obtain \(T_{EE}\) numerically for different black-hole space-times.
3 Results and discussions
The Hamiltonian H in Eq. (12) is mapped to a system of N coupled time independent harmonic oscillators (HOs) with non-periodic boundary conditions. The interaction matrix elements of the Hamiltonian can be found in Ref. [40]. The total internal energy (E) and the entanglement entropy (S) for the ground state of the HOs is computed numerically as a function of \(\epsilon \) by using a central difference scheme (see Appendix B). All the computations are done using MATLAB R2012a for the lattice size \(N = 600\), \( 10 \le n \le 500\) with a minimum accuracy of \(10^{-8}\) and a maximum accuracy of \(10^{-12}\).
In the following subsections, we compute \(T_{EE}\) numerically for two different black-hole space-times, namely, the four-dimensional Schwarzschild and Reissner–Nordström black holes and show that they match with the Hawking temperature \(T_{BH}\). \(T_{EE}\) is calculated by taking the average of entanglement temperature for each n by fixing N.
3.1 Schwarzschild (SBH) black holes
The four-dimensional Schwarzschild black-hole space-time (put \(D=2\)) in dimensionless units \(\tilde{r}\) is given by the line element in Eq. (5) with \(f(\tilde{r})\) given by
In Fig. 1, we have plotted the total energy (in dimensionless units) and EE versus \(\epsilon \) for a four-dimensional Schwarzschild space-time. The following points are important to note regarding the numerical results: First for every \(\epsilon \), the von Neumann entropy scales approximately as \(S \sim (r_h/b)^2\). Second, EE and the total energy increase with \(\epsilon \).
Using Eq. (15), we evaluate the “entanglement” temperature numerically. In dimensionless units, we get \(T_{EE}=0.0793\), which is close to the value of the Hawking temperature 0.079. However, it is important to note that for different values of N, we obtain approximately the same value of the entropy. The results are tabulated; see Table 1. See Appendix C, for plots of energy and EE for \(n=50,80, 100\), and 130.
3.2 Reissner–Nordström (RN) black holes
The four-dimensional Reissner–Nordström black hole is given by the line element in Eq. (5), where \(f(\tilde{r})\) is
Q is the charge of the black hole. Note that we have rescaled the radius w.r.t. the outer horizon (\( r_h=M+\sqrt{M^2-Q^2}\)). Choosing \(q=Q/r_h\), we get
and the black-hole temperature in the unit of \(r_h\) is \(T_{BH} = (1-q^2)/4\pi \).
Note that we have evaluated the entanglement temperature by fixing the charge q. For a fixed charge q, the first law of black-hole mechanics is given by \( \mathrm{d} E=\left( \kappa /2\pi \right) \mathrm{d}A\), where A is the area of the black-hole horizon. The energy and EE for different q values have the same profile, which looks exactly like the previous case and is shown in the middle row in Fig. 2. See Appendix C for plots for other values of n. As given in Table 1, \(T_{EE}\) matches with the Hawking temperature.
4 Conclusions and outlook
In this work, we have given another proof that four-dimensional black-hole entropy can be associated to the entropy of entanglement across the horizon by explicitly deriving the entanglement temperature. The entanglement temperature is given by the rate of change of the entropy of entanglement across a black hole’s horizon with regard to the system energy. Our new result sheds light on the interpretation of temperature as regards entanglement as the Hawking temperature; one more step to understanding the black-hole thermodynamics in the field of quantum information theory.
The plots of total energy (top panel) and EE (bottom panel) as a function of \(\epsilon \) for different qs in four-dimensional Reissner–Nordström black hole. For these, we set \(N = 600\) and \(n=150\). The cyan colored dots are the numerical data and the red line is the best linear fit to the data
Some of the key features of our analysis are: First, while entanglement and energy diverge in the limit of \(b \rightarrow 0\), the entanglement temperature is a finite quantity. Second, the entanglement temperature vanishes for the flat space-time. While the evaluation of the entanglement entropy does not distinguish between the black-hole space-time and flat space-time, the entanglement temperature distinguishes the two space-times.
Our analysis also shows that the entanglement entropy satisfies all the properties of the black-hole entropy. First, like the black-hole entropy, the entanglement entropy increases and never decreases. Second, the entanglement entropy and the temperature satisfies the first law of black-hole mechanics \(\mathrm{d}E= T_{EE} \,\mathrm{d}S\). We have shown this explicitly for a Schwarzschild black hole and for a Reissner–Norstrom black hole.
It is quite remarkable that in higher-dimensional space-time the Rényi entropy provides a convergent alternative to the measure of entanglement [30]; however, the entanglement temperature will depend on the Rényi parameter. While a physical understanding of the Rényi parameter has emerged [41], it is still not clear how to fix the Rényi parameter from first principles [42].
Our analysis throws some light on the emergent gravity paradigm [43–46] where gravity is not viewed as a fundamental force. Here we have shown that the information lost across the horizon is related to the black-hole entropy and the laws of black-hole mechanics emerge from the entanglement across the horizon. Since general relativity reduces gravity to an effect of the curvature of the space-time, it is thought that the microscopic constituents would be the atoms of the space-time itself. Our analysis shows that entanglement across horizons can be used as building blocks of space-time [47, 48].
One of the unsettling questions in theoretical physics is whether due to Hawking temperature the black hole has performed a non-unitary transformation on the state of the system, a.k.a. the information loss problem. Our analysis here does not address this question for two reasons: (1) Here, we have fixed the radius of the horizon at all times and evaluated the change in the entropy while to address the information loss we need to consider a changing horizon radius. (2) Here, we have used a perturbative Hamiltonian, and, hence, this analysis fails as the black-hole size shrinks to half its size [49]. We hope to report on this feature in the future.
While the unitary quantum time-evolution is reversible and retains all information as regards the initial state, we have shown that the restriction of the degrees of freedom outside the event horizon at all times leads to a temperature analogous to the Hawking temperature. Our analysis may have relevance to the eigenstate thermalization hypothesis [20–23], which we plan to explore.
Notes
In Schwarzschild coordinates, \(r > 2M\) needs to be bipartitioned [36].
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Acknowledgments
The authors wish to thank A. P. Balachandran, Charles Bennett, Samuel Braunstein, Saurya Das, and Jens Eisert for discussions and comments. Also, we would like to thank the anonymous referee for the useful comments. All numerical computations were done at the fast computing clusters at IISER-TVM. The work is supported by Max Planck-India Partner Group on Gravity and Cosmology. SSK acknowledges the financial support of the CSIR, Govt. of India through Senior Research Fellowship. SS is partially supported by Ramanujan Fellowship of DST, India.
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Appendices
Appendix A: Calculation of scalar field Hamiltonian in Lemaître coordinate
In this appendix, we give details of the derivation of the Hamiltonian (H) up to second order in \({\epsilon }\). Using the orthogonal properties of the real spherical harmonics \(Z_{_{lm_i}}\), the scalar field action reduces to
where \(\tilde{r}=r/r_h, \tilde{\xi }=\xi /r_h, \tilde{\tau }=\tau /r_h, \tilde{\Phi }_{lm}=r_h \, \Phi _{lm} \) are dimensionless.
We perform the following infinitesimal transformation [38] in the above resultant action:
The action in Eq. A.1 becomes
where \(h_1=\displaystyle \frac{\partial \tilde{r}}{\partial \tilde{\tau }} ~~\text{ and }~~ h_2=\displaystyle \frac{\partial ^2\tilde{r}}{\partial \tilde{\tau }^2} \).
Using the relation between the Lemaître coordinates [37]
gives the following expression:
The Hamiltonian (H) corresponding to the above Lagrangian is
where
and \(\tilde{\Pi }_{lm_i}\) is the canonical conjugate momenta corresponding to the field \(\tilde{\chi }_{lm_i}\).
Upon quantization, \(\tilde{\Pi }_{lm_i}\) and \(\tilde{\chi }_{lm_i}\) satisfy the usual canonical commutation relation:
Using relations (A.7) and expanding the Hamiltonian up to second order in \(\epsilon \), we get
The Hamiltonian in Eq. (A.13) is of the form
where \( H_{_0}\) is the unperturbed scalar field Hamiltonian in the flat space-time, \(V_{_1} \text{ and }\,V_{_2}\) are the perturbed parts of the Hamiltonian given by
where
and the redefined field operators are
such that they satisfy the following canonical commutation relation:
The Hamiltonian H in Eq. (A.14) is mapped to a system of N coupled time independent harmonic oscillators (HO) with non-periodic boundary conditions. The interaction matrix elements of the Hamiltonian can be found in Ref. [40]. The total internal energy (E) and the entanglement entropy (S) for the ground state of the HO’s is computed numerically as a function of \(\epsilon \) by using a central difference scheme.
Appendix B: Central difference discretization
Central difference discretization is one of the effective methods for finding the approximate value for the derivative of a function in the neighborhood of any discrete point, \(x_i=x_0+i\;h\), with unit steps of h. The Taylor expansions of the function about the point \(x_0\) in the forward and backward difference scheme are given, respectively, by
which implies
Appendix C: Plots of internal energy and EE as a function of \(\epsilon \) for different black-hole space-times
In this section of the appendix, we give plots of EE for different black-hole space-times (Figs. 3, 4, 5).
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Kumar, S.S., Shankaranarayanan, S. Quantum entanglement and Hawking temperature. Eur. Phys. J. C 76, 400 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-016-4241-3
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