Does connected wedge imply distillable entanglement?
摘要
The Ryu-Takayanagi formula predicts that two boundary subsystems A and C can exhibit large mutual information I(A : C) even when they are spatially disconnected on the boundary and separated by a buffer subsystem B, as long as A and C have connected entanglement wedge in the bulk. However, whether the reduced state ρAC contains distillable EPR pairs has remained a longstanding open problem. In this work, we resolve this problem by showing that: i) there is no LO-distillable entanglement at leading order in GN, suggesting the absence of bipartite entanglement in a holographic mixed state ρAC, and ii) one-shot, one-way LOCC-distillable entanglement is given at leading order by locally accessible information JW(A|C), which is related to the entanglement wedge cross section EW involving the (third) purifying system B via JW(A|C) = SA − EW (A : B). Namely, we demonstrate that a connected entanglement wedge does not necessarily imply nonzero distillable entanglement in one-shot, one-way LOCC. We also show that entanglement of formation EF(A : C) is given by EW(A : C) at leading order in holography.