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Recently it has been proposed that the Bekenstein-Hawking formula for the entropy of spacetime horizons has a larger significance as the leading contribution to the entanglement entropy of general spacetime regions, in the underlying…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-08-27 Jason Wien

We provide a gravitational argument in favour of the covariant holographic entanglement entropy proposal. In general time-dependent states, the proposal asserts that the entanglement entropy of a region in the boundary field theory is given…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-11-22 Xi Dong , Aitor Lewkowycz , Mukund Rangamani

The holographic entanglement entropy functional for higher-curvature gravities involves a weighted sum whose evaluation, beyond quadratic order, requires a complicated theory-dependent splitting of the Riemann tensor components. Using the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-05-05 Pablo Bueno , Joan Camps , Alejandro Vilar López

The entanglement and R\'{e}nyi entropies for spherical entangling surfaces in CFTs with gravity duals can be explicitly calculated by mapping these entropies first to the thermal entropy on hyperbolic space and then, using the AdS/CFT…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-09-12 Subhash Mahapatra

Entanglement entropy quantifies the amount of uncertainty of a quantum state. For quantum fields in curved space, entanglement entropy of the quantum field theory degrees of freedom is well-defined for a fixed background geometry. In this…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-10-28 Xi Dong , Xiao-Liang Qi , Zhou Shangnan , Zhenbin Yang

Based on the Lewkowycz-Maldacena prescription and the fine structure analysis of holographic entanglement proposed in arXiv:1803.05552, we explicitly calculate the holographic entanglement entropy for warped CFT that duals to AdS$_3$ with a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-02-20 Qiang Wen

We study how the universal contribution to entanglement entropy in a conformal field theory depends on the entangling region. We show that for a deformed sphere the variation of the universal contribution is quadratic in the deformation…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-02-17 Andrea Allais , Márk Mezei

We compute the entanglement entropy and Renyi entropies of arbitrary pure states in pure Jackiw-Teitelboim gravity in Lorentz signature. We apply the quantum Hubeny-Rangamani-Ryu-Takayanagi formula by computing the quantum corrected area…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-01-11 Daniel Louis Jafferis , David K. Kolchmeyer

The Renyi entropies and entanglement entropy of 1+1 CFTs with gravity duals can be computed by explicit construction of the bulk spacetimes dual to branched covers of the boundary geometry. At the classical level in the bulk this has…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-12-16 Taylor Barrella , Xi Dong , Sean A. Hartnoll , Victoria L. Martin

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

We construct a new class of entanglement measures by extending the usual definition of Renyi entropy to include a chemical potential. These charged Renyi entropies measure the degree of entanglement in different charge sectors of the theory…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-17 Alexandre Belin , Ling-Yan Hung , Alexander Maloney , Shunji Matsuura , Robert C. Myers , Todd Sierens

Motivated by the holographic prescriptions for computing entanglement entropy and complexity, we study the properties of volumes/areas of bulk surfaces. We obtain a simple formula for the shape dependence of holographic entanglement entropy…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-10-02 Dean Carmi

We consider entanglement entropy in quantum field theories with a gravity dual. In the gravity description, the leading order contribution comes from the area of a minimal surface, as proposed by Ryu-Takayanagi. Here we describe the one…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-16 Thomas Faulkner , Aitor Lewkowycz , Juan Maldacena

We study the entanglement entropy in confining theories with gravity duals using the holographic prescription of Ryu and Takayanagi. The entanglement entropy between a region and its complement is proportional to the minimal area of a bulk…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-18 Ari Pakman , Andrei Parnachev

Recently, Bousso and Penington (BP) made a proposal for the entanglement wedge associated to a gravitating bulk region. In this paper, we derive this proposal in time-reflection symmetric settings using the gravitational path integral. To…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-08-27 Sami Kaya , Pratik Rath , Kyle Ritchie

We extend the approach of Casini, Huerta and Myers to a new calculation of the Renyi entropy of a general CFT in d dimensions with a spherical entangling surface, in terms of certain thermal partition functions. We apply this approach to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-11-07 Janet Hung , Robert C. Myers , Michael Smolkin , Alexandre Yale

Motivated by extended black hole thermodynamics, we generalize the R\'enyi entropy of charged holographic conformal field theories (CFTs) in $d$-dimensions. Specifically, following (1807.09215), we extend the quench description of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-05-07 Andrew Svesko

We propose a framework for preparing quantum states with a holographic entanglement structure, in the sense that the entanglement entropies are governed by minimal surfaces in a chosen bulk geometry. We refer to such entropies as…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-30 Jonathan Jeffrey , Lucien Gandarias , Monika Schleier-Smith , Brian Swingle

Entanglement entropy for a spatial partition of a quantum system is studied in theories which admit a dual description in terms of the anti-de Sitter (AdS) gravity one dimension higher. A general proof of the holographic formula which…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-02-03 Dmitri V. Fursaev

We propose a field theoretic framework for calculating the dependence of R\'enyi entropies on the shape of the entangling surface in a conformal field theory. Our approach rests on regarding the corresponding twist operator as a conformal…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-08-24 Lorenzo Bianchi , Marco Meineri , Robert C. Myers , Michael Smolkin