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We extend our studies of holographic entropy inequalities to gapped phases of matter. For any number of regions, we determine the linear entropy inequalities satisfied by systems in which the entanglement entropy satisfies an exact area…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-10-02 Ning Bao , ChunJun Cao , Michael Walter , Zitao Wang

In this paper we consider entanglement entropies in two-dimensional conformal field theories in the presence of topological interfaces. Tracing over one side of the interface, the leading term of the entropy remains unchanged. The interface…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-11-03 Enrico M. Brehm , Ilka Brunner , Daniel Jaud , Cornelius Schmidt-Colinet

We study one-loop bulk entanglement entropy in even spacetime dimensions using the heat kernel method, which captures the universal piece of entanglement entropy, a logarithmically divergent term in even dimensions. In four dimensions, we…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-07-21 Zhong-Ying Fan

We calculate the two-point function of the trace of the stress tensor in holographic renormalization group flows between pairs of conformal field theories. We show that the term proportional to the momentum squared in this correlator gives…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-04-19 Horacio Casini , Eduardo Teste , Gonzalo Torroba

The vacuum entanglement entropy in quantum field theory provides nonperturbative information about renormalization group flows. Most studies so far have focused on the universal terms, related to the Weyl anomaly in even space-time…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-01-24 Lucas Daguerre , Matias Ginzburg , Gonzalo Torroba

In recent years, the holographic duality between $T\bar{T}$-deformed conformal field theory (CFT) and Anti-de Sitter (AdS) spacetime with finite radial cutoff has received significant attention. The study of $T\bar{T}$ deformation within…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-07-10 Jing-Cheng Chang , Song He , Yu-Xiao Liu , Long Zhao

We present the results of our studies of the entanglement entropy of a superconducting system described holographically as a fully back-reacted gravity system, with a stable ground state. We use the holographic prescription for the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-06-04 Tameem Albash , Clifford V. Johnson

We provide a field-theoretic method to calculate entanglement entropy of CFT in all dimensions. This method works for entangling surfaces of arbitrary shape. The formalism manifests a field-theoretic proof of the Ryu-Takayanagi formula.

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-01-06 Xin Jiang , Haitang Yang

In this article, we investigate the entanglement structure of bipartite mixed states in (1+1)-dimensional boundary conformal field theories (BCFT$_2$s) through the odd entanglement entropy (OEE) by employing an appropriate replica…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-10-18 Anjali Kumari , Vinayak Raj , Gautam Sengupta

We compute the holographic entanglement entropy contribution from planar two-dimensional defects in six-dimensional $\mathcal{N}=(2,0)$ superconformal field theory, holographically dual to probe M2- and M5-branes in $AdS_7 \times S^4$. In…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-03-27 Ronnie Rodgers

We compute the entanglement entropy in a composite system separated by a finitely ramified boundary with the structure of a self-similar lattice graph. We derive the entropy as a function of the decimation factor which determines the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-11-14 Ibrahim Akal

We present a holographic method for computing the response of R\'enyi entropies in conformal field theories to small shape deformations around a flat (or spherical) entangling surface. Our strategy employs the stress tensor one-point…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-06-16 Lorenzo Bianchi , Shira Chapman , Xi Dong , Damián A. Galante , Marco Meineri , Robert C. Myers

A relevant perturbation of the entanglement entropy of a sphere is examined holographically near the UV fixed point. Varying the conformal dimension of the relevant operator, we obtain three different sectors: 1) the entanglement entropy is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-08-13 Tatsuma Nishioka

It was shown in Dey and Roy (2012) that the near horizon limit of the 1/4 BPS threshold F-D$p$ (for $0\leq p \leq 5$, $p \neq 4$) bound state solutions of type II string theories give rise to space-time metrics endowed with Lifshitz scaling…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-11 Parijat Dey , Shibaji Roy

In this thesis, we study a variety of phenomena in strongly coupled quantum field theories by performing calculations in their gravitational duals. We compute entanglement entropy in a variety of holographic systems, paying particular…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-12-23 Ronnie Rodgers

Some quantum field theories show, in a fundamental or an effective manner, an alternative between a loss of duality for algebras of operators corresponding to complementary regions, or a loss of additivity. In this latter case, the algebra…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-03-18 Horacio Casini , Marina Huerta , Javier M. Magan , Diego Pontello

We study the short-distance structure of geometric entanglement entropy in certain theories with a built-in scale of nonlocality. In particular we examine the cases of Little String Theory and Noncommutative Yang-Mills theory, using their…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-19 Jose L. F. Barbon , Carlos A. Fuertes

We prove two new infinite families of holographic entropy inequalities. A key tool is a graphical arrangement of terms of inequalities, which is based on entanglement wedge nesting (EWN). It associates the inequalities with tessellations of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-09-28 Bartlomiej Czech , Sirui Shuai , Yixu Wang , Daiming Zhang

We calculate the holographic entanglement entropy for the holographic QCD phase diagram considered in [Knaute, Yaresko, K\"ampfer (2017), arXiv:1702.06731] and explore the resulting qualitative behavior over the temperature-chemical…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-11-08 J. Knaute , B. Kämpfer

We calculate entanglement entropy in a non-relativistic field theory described by the Schr\"odinger operator. We demonstrate that the entropy is characterized by i) the area law and ii) UV divergences that are identical to those in the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-05-12 Sergey N. Solodukhin