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We provide a derivation of holographic entanglement entropy for spherical entangling surfaces. Our construction relies on conformally mapping the boundary CFT to a hyperbolic geometry and observing that the vacuum state is mapped to a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-05-12 Horacio Casini , Marina Huerta , Robert C. Myers

We advance the study of flat space holography by computing the entanglement entropy of highly excited states in two-dimensional Carrollian/Galilean Conformal Field Theories (C/G CFTs). Our approach is centered on a novel, physically…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-19 Peng-Xiang Hao , Shunta Takahashi

We derive a general relation between the ground state entanglement Hamiltonian and the physical stress tensor within the path integral formalism. For spherical entangling surfaces in a CFT, we reproduce the \emph{local} ground state…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-05-05 Gabriel Wong , Israel Klich , Leopoldo A. Pando Zayas , Diana Vaman

We study the time dependence of the entanglement entropy of disjoint intervals following a global quantum quench in (1+1)-dimensional CFTs at large-$c$ with a sparse spectrum. The result agrees with a holographic calculation but differs…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-12-16 Stefan Leichenauer , Mudassir Moosa

In this paper, we study the entanglement contour in a general excited state in the holographic 2d CFT using the partial entanglement entropy proposal. We show how thermodynamics fixes the entanglement contour relating it to the first law of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-05-28 Dmitry S. Ageev

In this paper we study various aspects of entanglement entropy in strongly-coupled de Sitter quantum field theories in various dimensions. We find gravity solutions that are dual to field theories in a fixed de Sitter background, both in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-07-08 Willy Fischler , Sandipan Kundu , Juan F. Pedraza

The first law for entanglement entropy in CFT in an odd-dimensional asymptotically AdS black hole is studied by using the AdS/CFT duality. The entropy of CFT considered here is due to the entanglement between two subsystems separated by the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-07-14 Akihiro Ishibashi , Kengo Maeda

We investigate the emergence of thermodynamic arrow of time in the context of AdS/CFT correspondence. We show that, on the CFT side, if the two copies of the field theory are not initially correlated the entropy can only increase such that…

General Physics · Physics 2019-04-09 Ovidiu Racorean

Inspired by the holographic computation of large interval entanglement entropy of two dimensional conformal field theory at high temperature, it was proposed that the thermal entropy is related to the entanglement entropy as…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-01 Bin Chen , Jie-qiang Wu

We study entanglement entropy for parity-violating (time-reversal breaking) quantum field theories on $\mathbb{R}^{1,2}$ in the presence of a domain wall between two distinct parity-odd phases. The domain wall hosts a 1+1-dimensional…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-04-06 Taylor L. Hughes , Robert G. Leigh , Onkar Parrikar , Srinidhi T. Ramamurthy

We investigate the concept of time-like entanglement entropy (tEE) within the framework of holography. We introduce a robust top-down prescription for computing tEE in higher-dimensional QFTs, both conformal and confining, eliminating the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-07-14 Carlos Nunez , Dibakar Roychowdhury

We study the universal contributions to the entanglement entropy (EE) of 2+1d and 3+1d holographic conformal field theories (CFTs) on topologically non-trivial manifolds, focusing on tori. The holographic bulk corresponds to AdS-soliton…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-03-15 Pablo Bueno , William Witczak-Krempa

Growth of entanglement entropy in time-dependent states formed due to a global quench in holographic conformal field theories which admit an Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet dual gravity description is studied. The global quench in the bulk is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-08-28 Sabyasachi Maulik , Soumen Pari

We study the entanglement entropy for time-like subsystem in two-dimensional boundary conformal field theory (BCFT) both from the field theory and holographic point of view. In field theory, we compute the time-like entanglement entropy of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-03-12 Chong-Sun Chu , Himanshu Parihar

We compute the time-dependent entanglement entropy of a CFT which starts in relatively simple initial states. The initial states are the thermofield double for thermal states, dual to eternal black holes, and a particular pure state, dual…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-15 Thomas Hartman , Juan Maldacena

It was proposed by Ryu and Takayanagi that the entanglement entropy in conformal field theory (CFT) is related through the AdS/CFT correspondence to the area of a minimal surface in the bulk. We apply this holographic geometrical method of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-06-11 Pavel Krtous , Andrei Zelnikov

We study the applicability of the covariant holographic entanglement entropy proposal to asymptotically warped AdS$_3$ spacetimes with an SL(2,R) x U(1) isometry. We begin by applying the proposal to locally AdS$_3$ backgrounds which are…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-17 Dionysios Anninos , Joshua Samani , Edgar Shaghoulian

According to flat/Bondi-Metzner-Sachs invariant field theories (BMSFT) correspondence, asymptotically flat spacetimes in $(d+1)$-dimensions are dual to $d$-dimensional BMSFTs. In this duality, similar to the Ryu-Takayanagi proposal in the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-11-20 Reza Fareghbal , Mehdi Hakami Shalamzari

We consider the entanglement entropy in 2d conformal field theory in a class of excited states produced by the insertion of a heavy local operator. These include both high-energy eigenstates of the Hamiltonian and time-dependent local…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-03-27 Curtis T. Asplund , Alice Bernamonti , Federico Galli , Thomas Hartman

We study the shape dependence of entanglement entropy (EE) by deforming symmetric entangling surfaces. We show that entangling surfaces with a rotational or translational symmetry extremize (locally) the EE with respect to shape…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-01-27 Dean Carmi