On minimal entanglement wedge cross section for holographic entanglement negativity

Abstract

We propose an alternate construction to compute the minimal entanglement wedge cross section (EWCS) for a single interval in a $(1+1)$ dimensional holographic conformal field theory at a finite temperature, dual to a bulk planar BTZ black hole geometry. Utilizing this construction we compute the holographic entanglement negativity for the above mixed state configuration from a recent conjecture in the literature. Our results exactly reproduce the corresponding replica technique results in the large central charge limit and resolves the issue of the missing thermal term for the holographic entanglement negativity computed earlier in the literature. In this context we compare the results for the holographic entanglement negativity utilizing the minimum EWCS and an alternate earlier proposal involving an algebraic sum of the lengths of the geodesics homologous to specific combinations of appropriate intervals. From our analysis we conclude that the two quantities are proportional in the context of the $AdS_3/CFT_2$ scenario and this possibly extends to the higher dimensional $AdS_{d+1}/CFT_d$ framework.Comment: 4 figures, 14 page