Spread of Entanglement in Non-Relativistic Theories

Abstract EN

We use a simple holographic toy model to study global quantum quenches in strongly coupled, hyperscaling-violating-Lifshitz quantum field theories using entanglement entropy as a probe.

Generalizing our conformal field theory results, we show that the holographic entanglement entropy of small subsystems can be written as a simple linear response relation.

We use this relation to derive a time-dependent first law of entanglement entropy.

In general, this law has a time-dependent term resembling relative entropy which we propose as a good order parameter to characterize out-of-equilibrium states in the post-quench evolution.

We use these tools to study a broad class of quantum quenches in detail: instantaneous, power law, and periodic.