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We present a holographic method for computing the response of R\'enyi entropies in conformal field theories to small shape deformations around a flat (or spherical) entangling surface. Our strategy employs the stress tensor one-point…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-06-16 Lorenzo Bianchi , Shira Chapman , Xi Dong , Damián A. Galante , Marco Meineri , Robert C. Myers

The entanglement spectrum of a bipartite quantum system is given by the distribution of eigenvalues of the modular Hamiltonian. In this work, we compute the entanglement spectrum in the vacuum state for a subregion of a $d$-dimensional…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-11-05 Stefano Baiguera , Shira Chapman , Christian Northe , Giuseppe Policastro , Tal Schwartzman

We consider the universal part of entanglement entropy across a plane in flat space for a QFT, giving a non-perturbative expression in terms of a spectral function. We study the change in entanglement entropy under a deformation by a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-22 Vladimir Rosenhaus , Michael Smolkin

In this paper we develop a systematic analysis of the properties of entanglement entropy in curved backgrounds using the replica approach. We explore the analytic $(q-1)$ expansion of R\'enyi entropy $S_q$ and its variations; our setup…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-10-31 Arvind Shekar , Marika Taylor

We investigate the real time dynamics of the radiation produced by a local quench in a $d$-dimensional conformal field theory (CFT) with $d>2$. Using the interpretation of the higher-dimensional twist operator as a conformal defect, we…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-02-28 Lorenzo Bianchi , Andrea Mattiello , Jacopo Sisti

The vacuum entanglement entropy of a general conformal field theory (CFT) in $d=5$ spacetime dimensions contains a universal term, $F(A)$, which has a complicated and non-local dependence on the geometric details of the region $A$ and the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-01-03 Giorgos Anastasiou , Ignacio J. Araya , Pablo Bueno , Javier Moreno , Rodrigo Olea , Alejandro Vilar Lopez

Universal scaling terms occurring in Renyi entanglement entropies have the potential to bring new understanding to quantum critical points in free and interacting systems. Quantitative comparisons between analytical continuum theories and…

We propose a new example of entanglement knitting spacetime together, satisfying a series of checks of the corresponding von Neumann and Renyi entropies. The conjectured dual of de Sitter in d+1 dimensions involves two coupled CFT sectors…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-08-01 Xi Dong , Eva Silverstein , Gonzalo Torroba

In a D=2+1 quantum critical system, the entanglement entropy across a boundary with a corner contains a subleading logarithmic scaling term with a universal coefficient. It has been conjectured that this coefficient is, to leading order,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-12-10 E. M. Stoudenmire , Peter Gustainis , Ravi Johal , Stefan Wessel , Roger G. Melko

The entanglement entropy corresponding to a smooth region in general three-dimensional CFTs contains a constant universal term, $-F \subset S_{\text{EE}}$. For a disk region, $F|_{\rm disk}\equiv F_0$ coincides with the free energy on…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-11-10 Pablo Bueno , Horacio Casini , Oscar Lasso Andino , Javier Moreno

The R\'enyi (Shannon) entropy, i.e. $Re_{\alpha}(Sh)$, of the ground state of quantum systems in local bases normally show a volume-law behavior. For a subsystem of quantum chains at critical point there is an extra logarithmic subleading…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-06-10 Babak Tarighi , Reyhaneh Khasseh , M. N. Najafi , M. A. Rajabpour

We consider time-dependent entanglement entropy (EE) for a 1+1 dimensional CFT in the presence of angular momentum and U(1) charge. The EE saturates, irrespective of the initial state, to the grand canonical entropy after a time large…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-16 Pawel Caputa , Gautam Mandal , Ritam Sinha

In this work we consider the time evolution of charged Renyi entanglement entropies after exciting the vacuum with local fermionic operators. In order to explore the information contained in charged Renyi entropies, we perform computations…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-05-25 Pawel Caputa , Masahiro Nozaki , Tokiro Numasawa

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

We investigate the universal information contained in the Renyi entanglement entropies for a free massless Dirac fermion in three spatial dimensions. Using numerical calculations on the lattice, we examine the case where the entangling…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-05-08 Grigory Bednik , Lauren E. Hayward Sierens , Minyong Guo , Robert C. Myers , Roger G. Melko

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

An entanglement Renyi entropy for a spatial partition of a system is studied in conformal theories which admit a dual description in terms of an anti-de Sitter gravity. The divergent part of the Renyi entropy is computed in 4D conformal N=4…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-03 Dmitri V. Fursaev

Entanglement and the R\'enyi entropies for Dirac fermions on 2 dimensional torus in the presence of chemical potential, current source, and topological Wilson loop are unified in a single framework by exhausting all the ingredients of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-01-19 Bom Soo Kim

We study the behaviour of entanglement entropy in two-dimensional CFTs under Weyl transformations from the Weyl anomaly. Using the Ryu-Takayanagi-formula, we show that these deformations correspond to local deformations of the IR cutoff of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-11-30 Leo Shaposhnik

In local quantum circuits with charge conservation, we initialize the system in random product states and study the dynamics of the Renyi entanglement entropy $R_\alpha$. We rigorously prove that $R_\alpha$ with Renyi index $\alpha>1$ at…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-12-21 Yichen Huang