The PEE aspects of entanglement islands from bit threads

Abstract

We study the partial entanglement entropy (PEE) aspects of the holographic BCFT setup with an entanglement island, inspired by the holographic triality of the AdS/BCFT setup developed in the recent study on the black hole information problem, and the "PEE=CFF (component flow flux)" prescription, which is proposed recently to investigate the holographic PEE in the framework of bit thread formulation. Our study provides a bit thread description of the AdS/BCFT setup, which characterizes the specific entanglement details between the different parts of the system with an entanglement island, and may provide further insight into the black hole information problem. Furthermore, we show that in the context of island, one should distinguish between the fine-grained PEE and the semi-classical PEE. Interestingly, similar to the island rule of the fine-grained entropy in the semi-classical picture, we also propose the island rules of the fine-grained PEE.

Thread/State correspondence: from bit threads to qubit threads

“…Among these developments, it is worth noting that in [51] bit threads are related with the holographic entanglement distillation tensor networks, and in [52], the component flow fluxes in the locking bit thread configurations are shown to explain the partial entanglement entropies of the boundary quantum systems. In this paper 1 , by studying the connection between bit threads and SS duality, we propose a natural and novel physical property of bit threads, dubbed "thread/state correspondence", that is, in a so-called locking bit thread configuration [51][52][53][54], each bit thread is in a quantum superposition state of two orthogonal states. Our thread/state rules explicitly accentuate for the first time the implied meaning of the name "bit threads", namely, that these threads, which are used mathematically to recover the RT formula, can be physically assigned a meaning closely related to the concept of "bits".…”