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We study the entanglement contour, a quasi-local measure of entanglement, and propose a generic formula for the contour in 1+1d quantum systems. We use this formalism to investigate the real space entanglement structure of various static…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-07-18 Jonah Kudler-Flam , Ian MacCormack , Shinsei Ryu

We use a mix of field theoretic and holographic techniques to elucidate various properties of quantum entanglement entropy. In (3+1)-dimensional conformal field theory we study the divergent terms in the entropy when the entangling surface…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-07-13 Igor R. Klebanov , Tatsuma Nishioka , Silviu S. Pufu , Benjamin R. Safdi

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 in even dimensional conformal field theories (CFTs) contains well-known universal terms arising from the conformal anomaly. Renyi entropies are natural generalizations of the entanglement entropy that are much less…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-06-25 Jeongseog Lee , Lauren McGough , Benjamin R. Safdi

We use the conformal invariance and the holographic correspondence to fully specify the dependence of entanglement entropy on the extrinsic geometry of the 2d surface $\Sigma$ that separates two subsystems of quantum strongly coupled…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Sergey N. Solodukhin

We calculate the entanglement entropy of the de-Sitter (dS) static patch in the context of the DS/dS correspondence. Interestingly, we find that there exists a one parameter family of bulk minimal surfaces that all have the same area. Two…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-06-25 Hao Geng , Sebastian Grieninger , Andreas Karch

With an aim towards understanding the time-dependence of entanglement entropy in generic quantum field theories, we propose a covariant generalization of the holographic entanglement entropy proposal of hep-th/0603001. Apart from providing…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-06-15 Veronika E. Hubeny , Mukund Rangamani , Tadashi Takayanagi

We consider the entanglement entropy in the dS/CFT correspondence.In Einstein gravity on de Sitter spacetime we propose the holographic entanglement entropy as the analytic continuation of the extremal surface in Euclidean anti-de Sitter…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-04-29 Yoshiki Sato

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 derive the holographic entanglement entropy functional for a generic gravitational theory whose action contains terms up to cubic order in the Riemann tensor, and in any dimension. This is the simplest case for which the so-called…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-01-11 Elena Cáceres , Rodrigo Castillo Vásquez , Alejandro Vilar López

Using relative entropy, we derive bounds on the time rate of change of geometric entanglement entropy for any relativistic quantum field theory in any dimension. The bounds apply to both mixed and pure states, and may be extended to curved…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-12-10 Steven G. Avery , Miguel F. Paulos

The entanglement entropy (EE) can measure the entanglement between a spatial subregion and its complement, which provides key information about quantum states. Here, rather than focusing on specific regions, we study how the entanglement…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-02-21 William Witczak-Krempa

We study the divergent terms and the finite term in the expansion of the holographic entanglement entropy as the ultraviolet cutoff vanishes for smooth spatial regions having arbitrary shape, when the gravitational background is a four…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-03-05 Giacomo Cavini , Domenico Seminara , Jacopo Sisti , Erik Tonni

We provide a framework for a perturbative evaluation of the reduced density matrix. The method is based on a path integral in the analytically continued spacetime. It suggests an alternative to the holographic and `standard' replica trick…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-19 Vladimir Rosenhaus , Michael Smolkin

The entanglement entropy of a massless scalar field in de Sitter space depends on multiple scales, such as the radius of the entangling surface, the Hubble constant and the UV cutoff. We perform a high-precision numerical calculation using…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-09-03 Konstantinos Boutivas , Dimitrios Katsinis , Georgios Pastras , Nikolaos Tetradis

It is conventional to study the entanglement between spatial regions of a quantum field theory. However, in some systems entanglement can be dominated by "internal", possibly gauged, degrees of freedom that are not spatially organized, and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-22 Vijay Balasubramanian , Borun D. Chowdhury , Bartlomiej Czech , Jan de Boer

A system of fermions forming a Fermi surface exhibits a large degree of quantum entanglement, even in the absence of interactions. In particular, the usual case of a codimension one Fermi surface leads to a logarithmic violation of the area…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-06-14 Michael Pretko

We consider the holographic entanglement entropy of $(d+2)$-dimensional semi-local quantum liquids, for which the dual gravity background in the deep interior is $AdS_{2}\times\mathbb{R}^{d}$ multiplied by a warp factor which depends on the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-17 Johanna Erdmenger , Da-Wei Pang , Hansjörg Zeller

We study the symmetry resolution of the entanglement entropy of an interval in two-dimensional conformal field theories (CFTs), by relating the bipartition to the geometry of an annulus with conformal boundary conditions. In the presence of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-10-21 Giuseppe Di Giulio , René Meyer , Christian Northe , Henri Scheppach , Suting Zhao

Employing a conformal map to hyperbolic space cross a circle, we compute the universal contribution to the vacuum entanglement entropy (EE) across a sphere in even-dimensional conformal field theory. Previous attempts to derive the EE in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-03-23 Christopher P. Herzog , Kuo-Wei Huang , Kristan Jensen