Journal
PHYSICAL REVIEW D
Volume 93, Issue 6, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.93.064044
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Funding
- Berkeley Center for Theoretical Physics
- National Science Foundation [1214644, 1316783]
- fqxi Grant [RFP3-1323]
- US Department of Energy [DE-AC02-05CH11231]
- NSF [PHY-1314311]
- Institute for Advanced Study
- Division Of Physics
- Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien [1521446] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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We propose a universal inequality that unifies the Bousso bound with the classical focusing theorem. Given a surface sigma that need not lie on a horizon, we define a finite generalized entropy S-gen as the area of sigma in Planck units, plus the von Neumann entropy of its exterior. Given a null congruence N orthogonal to sigma, the rate of change of S-gen per unit area defines a quantum expansion. We conjecture that the quantum expansion cannot increase along N. This extends the notion of universal focusing to cases where quantum matter may violate the null energy condition. Integrating the conjecture yields a precise version of the Strominger-Thompson quantum Bousso bound. Applied to locally parallel light-rays, the conjecture implies a novel inequality, the quantum null energy condition, a lower bound on the stress tensor in terms of the second derivative of the von Neumann entropy. We sketch a proof of the latter relation in quantum field theory.
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