A Modular Sewing Kit for Entanglement Wedges

April 29, 2024
11:30am to 1:00pm

Grey Room 3

Specialist level
Speaker: 
Rafael Carrasco
Institution: 
IFT
Location&Place: 

Grey Room 3

Abstract: 

arXiv: 1903.04493

We relate the Riemann curvature of a holographic spacetime to an entanglement property of the dual CFT state: the Berry curvature of its modular Hamiltonians. The modular Berry connection encodes the relative bases of nearby CFT subregions while its bulk dual, restricted to the code subspace, relates the edge-mode frames of the corresponding entanglement wedges. At leading order in 1/N and for sufficiently smooth HRRT surfaces, the modular Berry connection simply sews together the orthonormal coordinate systems covering neighborhoods of HRRT surfaces. This geometric perspective on entanglement is a promising new tool for connecting the dynamics of entanglement and gravitation.