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We consider the holographic candidate for the entanglement of purification EP, given by the minimal cross sectional area of an entanglement wedge EW. The EP is generally very complicated quantity to obtain in field theories, thus to establish the conjectured relationship one needs to test if EW and EP share common features. In this paper the entangling regions we consider are slabs, concentric spheres, and creases in field theories in Minkowski space. The latter two can be mapped to regions in field theories defined on spheres, thus corresponding to entangled caps and orange slices, respectively. We work in general dimensions and for slabs we also consider field theories at finite temperature and confining theories. We find that EW is neither a monotonic nor continuous function of a scale. We also study a full ten-dimensional string theory geometry dual to a non-trivial RG flow of a three-dimensional Chern-Simons matter theory coupled to fundamentals. We show that also in this case EW behaves non-trivially, which if connected to EP, lends further support that the system can undergo purification simply by expansion or reduction in scale.
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Jokela, N., Pönni, A. Notes on entanglement wedge cross sections. J. High Energ. Phys. 2019, 87 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP07(2019)087
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