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We consider classical Euclidean gravity solutions with a boundary. The boundary contains a non-contractible circle. These solutions can be interpreted as computing the trace of a density matrix in the full quantum gravity theory, in the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-15 Aitor Lewkowycz , Juan Maldacena

There appears a universal logarithmic term of entanglement entropy, i.e., $-a(\Omega) \log(H/\delta)$, for 3d CFTs when the entangling surface has a sharp corner. $a(\Omega)$ is a function of the corner opening angle and behaves as…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-09-22 Rong-Xin Miao

Subdominant contributions to the entanglement entropy of quantum fields include logarithmic corrections to the area law characterized by universal coefficients that are independent of the ultraviolet regulator and capture detailed…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-12-28 Rodolfo Soldati , L. S. Menicucci , N. Yokomizo

We study holographic entanglement entropy in four-dimensional quantum gravity with negative cosmological constant. By using the replica trick and evaluating path integrals in the minisuperspace approximation, in conjunction with the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-04-15 Shinji Hirano

We re-examine holographic versions of the c-theorem and entanglement entropy in the context of higher curvature gravity and the AdS/CFT correspondence. We select the gravity theories by tuning the gravitational couplings to eliminate…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-02-22 Robert C. Myers , Aninda Sinha

The entanglement "first law" in conformal field theories relates the entanglement entropy for a ball-shaped region to an integral over the same region involving the expectation value of the CFT stress-energy tensor, for infinitesimal…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-05-14 Brian Swingle , Mark Van Raamsdonk

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 intertwining properties of integral transformations to provide a compact proof of the holographic equivalence between the first law of entanglement entropy and the linearized gravitational equations, in the context of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-04-07 Benjamin Mosk

We develop a formalism for calculating the entanglement entropy of an arbitrary spatial region of a gravitating spacetime at a moment of time symmetry. The crucial ingredient is a path integral over embeddings of the region into the overall…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-01-12 Vijay Balasubramanian , Charlie Cummings

We introduce a prescription to compute the entanglement entropy of Galilean conformal field theories by combining gravitational anomalies and an \.{I}n\"{o}n\"{u}-Wigner contraction. We find that our expression for the entanglement entropy…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-03-02 Seyed Morteza Hosseini , Alvaro Veliz-Osorio

We continue the study of entanglement entropy for a QFT through a perturbative expansion of the path integral definition of the reduced density matrix. The universal entanglement entropy for a CFT perturbed by a relevant operator is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-23 Vladimir Rosenhaus , Michael Smolkin

We explore the thermodynamic and entanglement properties of dynamical black holes based on the recently proposed dynamical black hole entropy by Hollands-Wald-Zhang. We first provide direct proof that, under first-order perturbations, the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-20 Weizhen Jia , Qiongyu Qi , Christina Gao

It has been shown that defining gravitational entanglement entropies relative to quantum reference frames (QRFs) intrinsically regularizes them. Here, we demonstrate that such relational definitions also have an advantage in lattice gauge…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-07-01 Goncalo Araujo-Regado , Philipp A. Hoehn , Francesco Sartini

It has been argued that the entropy which one is computing in the isolated horizon framework of loop quantum gravity is closely related to the entanglement entropy of the gravitational field and that the calculation performed is not…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-25 Norbert Bodendorfer

Entanglement entropy plays a variety of roles in quantum field theory, including the connections between quantum states and gravitation through the holographic principle. This article provides a review of entanglement entropy from a mixed…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-12-30 Tatsuma Nishioka

In loop quantum gravity, the area element of embedded spatial surfaces is given by a well-defined operator. We further characterize the quantized geometry of such surfaces by proposing definitions for operators quantizing scalar curvature…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-09-26 David Grüber , Hanno Sahlmann , Thomas Zilker

The entanglement entropy has been historically studied by many authors in order to obtain quantum mechanical interpretations of the gravitational entropy. The discovery of AdS/CFT correspondence leads to the idea of holographic entanglement…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-04 Tadashi Takayanagi

We study the entanglement entropy of theories that are derived from relevant perturbation of given CFTs for regions with a singular boundary by using the AdS/CFT correspondence. In the smooth case, it is well known that a relevant…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-02-26 Mostafa Ghasemi , Shahrokh Parvizi

Generalized complex geometry is an example of a powerful formalism to attempt the construction of a language adequate to string theory. With the remarkable property of unifying symplectic and complex manifolds as special cases of a broader…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-03-26 Sara Oriana Tavares

Employing the Verlinde's hypothesis, and considering two well-known generalized entropy formalisms, two modifications to the Newtonian gravity are derived. In addition, it has been shown that the generalized entropy measures may also…

General Physics · Physics 2018-06-25 H. Moradpour , A. Sheykhi , C. Corda , Ines G. Salako