Entanglement, Observers and Cosmology: a view from von Neumann Algebras (2302.14747v1)

Abstract: Infinite entanglement fluctuations appear when a quantum field theory on a causally complete domain of space-time is a type $III$ factor. In the weak gravity limit $G_N=0$ this factor can be transformed into a crossed product type $II$ factor with finite entanglement fluctuations by adding a physical reference frame system (observer). The use of a physical reference frame to define a regularization of divergent entanglement is formally identical to the quantum information approach to superselection charges. In that case the added reference frame allows quantum superpositions between different superselection sectors. For the case of cosmological horizons we map the primordial inflationary slow rolling phase into a type $II$ modification of the pure de Sitter type $III$ factor and we use the so defined type $II$ finite entanglement fluctuations to predict the primordial power spectrum of scalar curvature fluctuations. For the Hagedorn high temperature phase of large $N$ Yang Mills, the type $II$ description of the Hagedorn phase accounts, in the large $N$ limit, for the quantum fluctuations of the interval of the corresponding matrix model eigenvalue distribution.