Resolution of Infrared Entanglement Divergences via the Extended Uncertainty Principle

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2607.29427v1
• Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2026 13:48:43 GMT
• Title: Resolution of Infrared Entanglement Divergences via the Extended Uncertainty Principle
• Abstract summary: We show that the IR divergence is intimately tied to the unbounded spatial delocalization of zero-modes.<n>In this work, we demonstrate that this infinite growth is naturally resolved by invoking the Extended Uncertainty Principle (EUP)<n>We extend this regularizing mechanism to many-body systems by evaluating the entanglement entropy and entanglement spectrum of a one-dimensional harmonic chain and a massless scalar field.
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• Abstract: The entanglement entropy of quantum systems typically exhibits both ultraviolet and infrared (IR) divergences. In the low-frequency limit, the IR divergence is intimately tied to the unbounded spatial delocalization of zero-modes, a pathological feature common to both coupled harmonic oscillators and massless scalar fields. In this work, we demonstrate that this infinite growth is naturally resolved by invoking the Extended Uncertainty Principle (EUP), which introduces large-length-scale geometric corrections to the canonical commutation relations. By exactly solving the simple harmonic oscillator under the EUP framework, we establish the existence of an intrinsic geometric confinement that enforces a strict upper bound on the position variance, limits spatial delocalization, and introduces an intrinsic localization length scale related to the background Ricci scalar. We extend this regularizing mechanism to many-body systems by evaluating the entanglement entropy and entanglement spectrum of a one-dimensional harmonic chain and a massless scalar field. We show that the EUP-induced spatial bounds prevent the accumulation of low-lying long-wavelength modes, keeping the entanglement spectrum discrete and evenly gapped even in the strictly massless limit. This non-vanishing modular gap effectively caps the local entanglement temperature of the vacuum. Consequently, the entanglement entropy saturates to a finite value, providing a robust, geometric resolution to the zero-mode IR divergence problem in quantum field theory.

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