Relational entanglement entropies and quantum reference frames in gauge theories

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2506.23459v1
• Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2025 01:43:11 GMT
• Title: Relational entanglement entropies and quantum reference frames in gauge theories
• Authors: Goncalo Araujo-Regado, Philipp A. Hoehn, Francesco Sartini,
• Abstract summary: We show that defining gravitational entanglement entropies relative to quantum reference frames (QRFs) intrinsically regularizes them.<n>Our work unifies and extends previous approaches and reveals the interplay between entropies and regional symmetry structures.
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• Abstract: It has been shown that defining gravitational entanglement entropies relative to quantum reference frames (QRFs) intrinsically regularizes them. Here, we demonstrate that such relational definitions also have an advantage in lattice gauge theories, where no ultraviolet divergences occur. To this end, we introduce QRFs for the gauge group via Wilson lines on a lattice with global boundary, realizing edge modes on the bulk entangling surface. Overcoming challenges of previous nonrelational approaches, we show that defining gauge-invariant subsystems associated with subregions relative to such QRFs naturally leads to a factorization across the surface, yielding distillable relational entanglement entropies. Distinguishing between extrinsic and intrinsic QRFs, according to whether they are built from the region or its complement, leads to extrinsic and intrinsic relational algebras ascribed to the region. The "electric center algebra" of previous approaches is recovered as the algebra that all extrinsic QRFs agree on, or by incoherently twirling any extrinsic algebra over the electric corner symmetry group. Similarly, a generalization of previous proposals for a "magnetic center algebra" is obtained as the algebra that all intrinsic QRFs agree on, or, in the Abelian case, by incoherently twirling any intrinsic algebra over a dual magnetic corner group. Altogether, this leads to a compelling regional algebra and relative entropy hierarchy. Invoking the corner twirls, we also find that the extrinsic/intrinsic relational entanglement entropies are upper bounded by the non-distillable electric/magnetic center entropies. Finally, using extrinsic QRFs, we discuss the influence of "asymptotic" symmetries on regional entropies. Our work thus unifies and extends previous approaches and reveals the interplay between entropies and regional symmetry structures.

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