Changing states in holography: From modular Berry curvature to the bulk symplectic form

Bartłomiej Czech, Jan De Boer, Ricardo Espíndola, Bahman Najian, Jeremy Van Der Heijden, Claire Zukowski

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Abstract

We present a new perspective on bulk reconstruction using Berry phases in the boundary conformal field theory (CFT). Our parallel transport of modular Hamiltonians is associated to a trajectory in the space of states, which we obtain from the insertion of a source in the Euclidean path integral. Using a modular version of the extrapolate dictionary and the equivalence between modular flow in the boundary and the bulk, we show that the expectation value of the modular Berry curvature on the boundary agrees with an appropriately defined bulk symplectic form associated to the entanglement wedge. In addition, we derive a quantum information metric on the space of density matrices from the Berry curvature, which is related to the canonical energy in the bulk. We also explore the case where a state change reduces to a shape change, uncovering the coadjoint orbit structure of kinematic space in higher dimensions.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Article number066003
JournalPhysical Review D
Volume108
Issue number6
DOIs
StatePublished - Sep 15 2023
Externally publishedYes

Bibliographical note

Funding Information:
It is a pleasure to thank Tom Faulkner, Alex May and Erik Verlinde for discussions. B. C. and R. E. are supported by the Dushi Zhuanxiang Fellowship. R. E. also acknowledges a Shuimu Scholarship as part of the “Shuimu Tsinghua Scholar” Program. R. E. was supported by the ERC Consolidator Grant QUANTIVIOL. B. N. is supported by the Spinoza Grant of the Dutch Science Organisation (NWO). J. dB. and J.vdH. are supported by the European Research Council under the European Unions Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013), ERC Grant agreement ADG 834878. C. Z. is supported by a UMD Higholt Professorship, and acknowledges a Heising-Simons Fellowship as part of the “Observational Signatures of Quantum Gravity” collaboration grant No. 2021-2818. This work is supported by the Delta ITP consortium, a program of the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) that is funded by the Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture and Science (OCW).

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© 2023 authors. Published by the American Physical Society.

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