STU attractors from vanishing concurrence

Abstract

Concurrence is an entanglement measure characterizing the mixed state bipartite correlations inside of a pure state of an n-qubit system. We show that after organizing the charges and the moduli in the STU model of N=2, d=4 supergravity to a three-qubit state, for static extremal spherically symmetric Bogomolny-Prasad-Sommerfield (BPS) black-hole solutions the vanishing condition for all of the bipartite concurrences on the horizon is equivalent to the attractor equations. As a result of this, the macroscopic black hole entropy given by the three-tangle can be reinterpreted as a linear entropy characterizing the pure state entanglement for an arbitrary bipartite split. Both for the BPS and non-BPS cases, explicit expressions for the concurrences are obtained, with their vanishing on the horizon is demonstrated. © 2011 American Physical Society.