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Understanding the dependence of entanglement entropy on the renormalized mass in quantum field theories can provide insight into phenomena such as quantum phase transitions, since the mass varies in a singular way near the transition. Here…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-12-11 Mark P. Hertzberg

The excess entanglement resulting from exciting a finite number of quasiparticles above the ground state of a free integrable quantum field theory has been investigated quite extensively in the literature. It has been found that it takes a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-01-18 Luca Capizzi , Olalla A. Castro-Alvaredo , Cecilia De Fazio , Michele Mazzoni , Lucía Santamaría-Sanz

We apply the universal method developed in \cite{Jiang:2025jnk} to compute the entanglement entropy between two tangent balls in CFT$_D$. When taking the radius of one ball to infinity, it gives the entanglement entropy between a ball and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-12-09 Jiankun Li , Li Song

Entanglement entropy of gauge fields is calculated using the partition function in curved spacetime with a boundary. We derive a Gibbons-Hawking-like term from a Becchi-Rouet-Stora-Tyutin (BRST) action and a Wald-entropy-like codimension-2…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-02-02 Kuo-Wei Huang

We consider entanglement through permeable junctions of $N$ $(1+1)$-dimensional free boson and free fermion conformal field theories. In the folded picture we constrain the form of the general boundary state. We calculate replicated…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-05-31 Michael Gutperle , John D. Miller

We generalize techniques previously used to compute ground-state properties of one-dimensional noninteracting quantum gases to obtain exact results at finite temperature. We compute the order-n R\'enyi entanglement entropy to all orders in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-06-13 Joaquín E. Drut , William J. Porter

We calculate numerically the logarithmic contribution to the entanglement entropy of a cylindrical region in three spatial dimensions for both, free scalar and Dirac fields. The coefficient is universal and proportional to the type $c$…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-05-07 Marina Huerta

We discuss two measures of entanglement in quantum field theory and their holographic realizations. For field theories admitting a global symmetry, we introduce a global symmetry entanglement entropy, associated with the partitioning of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-08-03 Marika Taylor

Entanglement entropies have revealed, in the last years, to be a powerful tool to extract information about the physics of condensed-matter systems. In the first part of this thesis, we show how to extract essential details about the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-09-17 Luca Taddia

We define a notion of target space entanglement entropy. Rather than partitioning the base space on which the theory is defined, we consider partitions of the target space. This is the physical case of interest for first-quantized theories,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-10-26 Edward A. Mazenc , Daniel Ranard

Assuming that the dominant contribution, to the entropy due to entanglement across a spherical hypersurface, comes from the near horizon degrees of freedom, we analytically derive the entropy of a free massless scalar field in Minkowski…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-08-19 Suman Ghosh

Entanglement entropy appears as a central property of quantum systems in broad areas of physics. However, its precise value is often sensitive to unknown microphysics, rendering it incalculable. By considering parametric dependence on…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-02-09 Mark P. Hertzberg , Frank Wilczek

We study the entanglement entropy within a spherical region for a free scalar field in a squeezed state in 3+1 dimensions. We show that, even for small squeezing, a volume term appears, whose coefficient is essentially independent of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-10-28 Dimitrios Katsinis , Georgios Pastras , Nikolaos Tetradis

arXiv:1205.2953 defines an entropy for a gaussian scalar field $\phi$ in an arbitrary region of either a causal set or a continuous spacetime, given only the correlator $\langle\phi(x)\phi(y)\rangle$ within the region. As a first…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-12-25 Mehdi Saravani , Rafael D. Sorkin , Yasaman K. Yazdi

The entanglement entropy of a subsystem of a quantum system is expressed, in the replica approach, through analytic continuation with respect to n of the trace of the n-th power of the reduced density matrix. This trace can be thought of as…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-12-18 Michele Caraglio , Ferdinando Gliozzi

We study the relative entanglement entropies of one interval between excited states of a 1+1 dimensional conformal field theory (CFT). To compute the relative entropy $S(\rho_1 \| \rho_0)$ between two given reduced density matrices $\rho_1$…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-02-14 Paola Ruggiero , Pasquale Calabrese

I present some general ideas about quantum entanglement in relativistic quantum field theory, especially entanglement in the physical vacuum. Here, entanglement is defined between different single particle states (or modes), parameterized…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Yu Shi

We introduce a series of quantities which characterizes a given local operator in conformal field theories from the viewpoint of quantum entanglement. It is defined by the increased amount of (Renyi) entanglement entropy at late time for an…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-03-26 Masahiro Nozaki , Tokiro Numasawa , Tadashi Takayanagi

To this day, von Neumann definition of entropy remains the most popular measure of quantum entanglement. Much of the literature on entanglement entropy, particularly in the context of field theory, has focused on isolating the UV…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-02-27 S. Mahesh Chandran , S. Shankaranarayanan

The field space entanglement entropy of a quantum field theory is obtained by integrating out a subset of its fields. We study an interacting quantum field theory consisting of massless scalar fields on a closed compact manifold M. To this…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-12-06 Helmuth Huffel , Gerald Kelnhofer