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We explore the question of finiteness of the entanglement entropy in gravitational theories whose emergent space is the target space of a holographic dual. In the well studied duality of two-dimensional non-critical string theory and $c=1$…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-12-28 Sumit R. Das , Antal Jevicki , Junjie Zheng

We review research on a number of situations where a quantum impurity or a physical boundary has an interesting effect on entanglement entropy. Our focus is mainly on impurity entanglement as it occurs in one dimensional systems with a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-05-07 Ian Affleck , Nicolas Laflorencie , Erik S. Sorensen

A formidable perspective in understanding quantum criticality of a given many-body system is through its entanglement contents. Until now, most progress are only limited to the disorder-free case. Here, we develop an efficient scheme to…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-12-01 Qicheng Tang , W. Zhu

In this work, motivated by the sine-square deformation (SSD) for (1+1)-dimensional quantum critical systems, we study the non-equilibrium quantum dynamics of a conformal field theory (CFT) with SSD, which was recently proposed to have…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-06-13 Xueda Wen , Jie-Qiang Wu

We promote use of the geometric entropy formula derived by Holzhey et. al. from conformal field theory, $S_\ell\sim ({c}/{3}) \log(\sin{\pi\ell}/{N})$, to identify critical regions in zero temperature 1D quantum systems. The method is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 S. O. Skrøvseth , K. Olaussen

The degrees of freedom of any interacting quantum field theory are entangled in momentum space. Thus, in the vacuum state, the infrared degrees of freedom are described by a density matrix with an entanglement entropy. We derive a relation…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-05-30 Vijay Balasubramanian , Michael B. McDermott , Mark Van Raamsdonk

In this note, I revisit the problem of computing the entanglement entropy of a single interval in the ground state of a 2d CFT. I write the leading-order result in three different ways: once by doing the replica trick with the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-10-25 Jennifer Lin

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

We show how to compute the purity and entanglement entropy for quantum fields in a systematic perturbative expansion. To that end, we generalize the in-in formalism to non-unitary dynamics (i.e. accounting for the presence of an…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-08-29 Thomas Colas , Julien Grain , Greg Kaplanek , Vincent Vennin

We consider the reflected entropy and the associated entanglement spectrum for free fermions reduced to two intervals in 1+1 dimensions. Working directly in the continuum theory the reflected entropy can be extracted from the spectrum of a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-03-22 Souvik Dutta , Thomas Faulkner , Simon Lin

The entanglement entropy of the ground state of a quantum lattice model with local interactions usually satisfies an area law. However, in 1D systems some violations may appear in inhomogeneous systems or in random systems. In our…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-05-08 Giovanni Ramírez

The holographic representation of the entanglement entropy of four dimensional conformal field theories is studied. By generalizing the replica trick the anomalous terms in the entanglement entropy are evaluated. The same terms in the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 A. Schwimmer , S. Theisen

An interface connecting two distinct conformal field theories hosts rich critical behaviors. In this work, we investigate the entanglement properties of such critical interface theories for probing the underlying universality. As inspired…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-01-10 Qicheng Tang , Zixia Wei , Yin Tang , Xueda Wen , W. Zhu

This paper revisits standard calculations of free field entanglement entropy in light of the newly developed lattice-continuum correspondence. This correspondence prescribes an explicit method to extract an approximately continuum quantum…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-07-20 Djordje Radicevic

We introduce a new measure called reduced entropy of sublattice to quantify entanglement in spin, electron and boson systems. By analyzing this quantity, we reveal an intriguing connection between quantum entanglement and quantum phase…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Y. Chen , Z. D. Wang , F. C. Zhang

Calculations of the entanglement entropy of a spatial region in continuum quantum field theory require boundary conditions on the fields at the fictitious boundary of the region. These boundary conditions impact the treatment of the zero…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-12-28 Ben Michel , Mark Srednicki

We develop a systematic method to extract the negativity in the ground state of a 1+1 dimensional relativistic quantum field theory, using a path integral formalism to construct the partial transpose rho_A^{T_2} of the reduced density…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-10-22 Pasquale Calabrese , John Cardy , Erik Tonni

Entanglement entropy is a valuable tool for characterizing the correlation structure of quantum field theories. When applied to gauge theories, subtleties arise which prevent the factorization of the Hilbert space underlying the notion of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-05-18 Clement Delcamp , Bianca Dittrich , Aldo Riello

We study bipartite post measurement entanglement entropy after selective measurements in quantum chains. We first study the quantity for the critical systems that can be described by conformal field theories. We find a connection between…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-02-01 Khadijeh Najafi , M. A. Rajabpour

We investigate the one-loop entanglement entropy of two short intervals with small cross ratio $x$ on a complex plane in two-dimensional conformal field theory (CFT) using operator product expansion of twist operators. We focus on the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-06-09 Zhibin Li , Jia-ju Zhang