Entanglement entropy of an acoustic black hole

We introduce a method to numerically compute the entanglement entropy of an acoustic black hole. It is shown that the entanglement entropy of sufficiently large subregions scales linearly with size and thus shows a volume law instead of an area law. The origin of this scaling can be traced back to the non-separable long-distance correlations due to the production of phonon pairs at the horizon. The system is shown to be locally thermal, such that the part of the entanglement entropy scaling with volume is well approximated by the thermal entropy of the outgoing Hawking radiation.

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Physical review. B./Physical review. B
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2026-11-03
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https://doi.org/10.1103/zk1n-x14g
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Black Holes and Theoretical Physics
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Entanglement entropy of an acoustic black hole

P.C. Van der Graaf, H. T. C. Stoof
Physical review. B./Physical review. B
Black Holes and Theoretical Physics
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Entanglement entropy of an acoustic black hole

P.C. Van der Graaf, H. T. C. Stoof
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Abstract

We introduce a method to numerically compute the entanglement entropy of an acoustic black hole. It is shown that the entanglement entropy of sufficiently large subregions scales linearly with size and thus shows a volume law instead of an area law. The origin of this scaling can be traced back to the non-separable long-distance correlations due to the production of phonon pairs at the horizon. The system is shown to be locally thermal, such that the part of the entanglement entropy scaling with volume is well approximated by the thermal entropy of the outgoing Hawking radiation.

Physical review. B./Physical review. B
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Entanglement entropy of an acoustic black hole — P.C. Van der Graaf, H. T. C. Stoof · Physical review. B./Physical review. B (2026) | TGRS Research Map | TGRS