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Entanglement entropies calculated in the framework of quantum field theory on classical, flat or curved, spacetimes are known to show an intriguing area law in four dimensions, but they are also notorious for their quadratic ultraviolet…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-08-01 Carlo Pagani , Martin Reuter

This paper investigates the challenges and resolutions in computing the entanglement entropy for the quantum field theory coupled to de Sitter (dS) gravity along a timelike boundary. The conventional island formula, originally designed to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-03-14 Peng-Xiang Hao , Taishi Kawamoto , Shan-Ming Ruan , Tadashi Takayanagi

We study the effect of a bubble wall on the entanglement entropy of a free massive scalar field between two causally disconnected open charts in de Sitter space. We assume there is a delta-functional wall between the open charts. This can…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-05-09 Andreas Albrecht , Sugumi Kanno , Misao Sasaki

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

The entanglement entropy of an annulus is examined in a three-dimensional system with or without a gap. For a free massive scalar field theory, we numerically calculate the mutual information across an annulus. We also study the holographic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-20 Yuki Nakaguchi , Tatsuma Nishioka

Attributing thermodynamic properties to the Bunch-Davies state in static patch of de Sitter space and setting the corresponding equations of state, we demonstrate that, for pure gravity, the bulk entropy computed on-shell as a volume…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-12-22 Dmitrii Diakonov

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

de Sitter cosmological horizons are known to exhibit thermodynamic properties similar to black hole horizons. In this work we study causal set de Sitter horizons, using Sorkin's spacetime entanglement entropy (SSEE) formula, for a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-11-27 Sumati Surya , Nomaan X , Yasaman K. Yazdi

We consider entanglement entropy between two halves of space separated by a plane, in the theory of free photon in 3+1 dimensions. We show how to separate local gauge invariant quantities that belong to the two spatial regions. We calculate…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-08-05 Candost Akkaya , Alex Kovner

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

Through the holographic correspondence, we compute the entanglement entropy of the gluonic field sourced by a quark-antiquark pair undergoing uniform back-to-back acceleration. Previous calculations had obtained this only for the case where…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-12-15 Andrés Argandoña , Alberto Güijosa

We demonstrate that for general conformal field theories (CFTs), the entanglement for small perturbations of the vacuum is organized in a novel holographic way. For spherical entangling regions in a constant time slice, perturbations in the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-02-15 Jan de Boer , Michal P. Heller , Robert C. Myers , Yasha Neiman

In this note a new method for computing the entanglement entropy of a CFT holographically is explored. It consists of finding a bulk background with a boundary metric that has the conical singularities needed to compute the entanglement…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-12-25 Georgios Michalogiorgakis

We explore the method of entanglement entropy applied to 2d black holes. We introduce a solvable model of a real scalar field with finite volume and lattice spacing in terms of $N$ coupled mechanical oscillators and compute its entanglement…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 P. Valtancoli

We use the holographic methods to calculate the entanglement entropy for field theories modified by $T\bar{T}$ insertion. Based on the available holographic proposals, this calculation reduces to the holographic computations in AdS with…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-01-26 Kuroush Allameh , Amin Faraji Astaneh , Alireza Hassanzadeh

We present a perturbative method to compute the ground state entanglement entropy for interacting systems. We apply it to a collective model of mutually interacting spins in a magnetic field. At the quantum critical point, the entanglement…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-05-11 T. Barthel , S. Dusuel , J. Vidal

We consider entanglement harvesting in de Sitter space using a model of multiple qubit detectors. We obtain the formula of the entanglement negativity for this system. Applying the obtained formula, we find that it is possible to access to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-08-30 Shingo Kukita , Yasusada Nambu

We compute the black hole horizon entanglement entropy S_E for a massless scalar field, first with a hard cutoff and then with high frequency dispersion, both imposed in a frame that falls freely across the horizon. Using WKB methods, we…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Ted Jacobson , Renaud Parentani

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 identify various universal contributions to the entanglement entropy for massive free fields. As well as the `area' terms found in [1], we find other geometric contributions of the form discussed in [2]. We also compute analogous…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-11 Aitor Lewkowycz , Robert C. Myers , Michael Smolkin