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We study the evolution of entanglement entropy in a 2-dimensional equilibration process that has a holographic description in terms of a Vaidya geometry. It models a unitary evolution in which the field theory starts in a pure state, its…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-12-06 Javier Abajo-Arrastia , Joao Aparicio , Esperanza Lopez

We study the relative R\'enyi entropy (RRE) under local quenches in two-dimensional conformal field theories (CFTs), focusing on rational CFTs (RCFTs) and holographic CFTs. In RCFTs, the RRE evolves as a monotonic function over time,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-12-22 Zi-Xuan Zhao , Song He , Hao Ouyang , Hong-an Zeng , Yu-Xuan Zhang

Recently, the reflected entropy is proposed in holographic approach to describe the entanglement of a bipartite quantum system in a mixed state, which is identified as the area of the reflected minimal surface inside the entanglement wedge.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-02-08 Yi Ling , Peng Liu , Yuxuan Liu , Chao Niu , Zhuo-Yu Xian , Cheng-Yong Zhang

We study a three-dimensional holographic CFT under the influence of a background electric field on a spacetime containing two black hole horizons. The electric background is fixed such that there is potential difference between the two…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-05-28 William D. Biggs , Jorge E. Santos

In order to holographically model quenches with a gapped final hamiltonian, we consider a gravity-scalar theory in anti-de Sitter space with an infrared hard wall. We allow a time dependent profile for the scalar field at the wall. This…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-07-20 Emilia da Silva , Esperanza Lopez , Javier Mas , Alexandre Serantes

We advance a holographic conjecture for the entanglement negativity of bipartite quantum states in $(1+1)$-dimensional conformal field theories in the $AdS_3/CFT_2$ framework. Our conjecture exactly reproduces the replica technique results…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-06-06 Pankaj Chaturvedi , Vinay Malvimat , Gautam Sengupta

The non-equilibrium process where the system does not evolve to the featureless state is one of the new central objects in the non-equilibrium phenomena. In this paper, starting from the short-range entangled state in the two-dimensional…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-07-30 Masahiro Nozaki , Kotaro Tamaoka , Mao Tian Tan

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

Recent work has revealed that entanglement entropy growth in conformal field theories (CFTs) can be suppressed when a local operator quench interacts with a mixed-state excitation, providing a dual interpretation in terms of black hole…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-21 Davood Momeni

We propose a holographic dual of a conformal field theory defined on a manifold with boundaries, i.e. boundary conformal field theory (BCFT). Our new holography, which may be called AdS/BCFT, successfully calculates the boundary entropy or…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-05-29 Tadashi Takayanagi

A generic spacetime topology contains timelike boundaries. Making use of two such boundaries, we formulate a microscopic holographic dual that captures cosmological spacetime beyond the cosmic horizon patch, including the future wedge. We…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-04-14 Batoul Banihashemi , Gauri Batra , Albert Y. T. Law , Eva Silverstein , Gonzalo Torroba

By generalizing different recent works to the context of higher curvature gravity, we provide a unifying framework for three related results: (i) If an asymptotically AdS spacetime computes the entanglement entropies of ball-shaped regions…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-05-22 Felix M. Haehl , Eliot Hijano , Onkar Parrikar , Charles Rabideau

We introduce a general approach to realize quantum states with holographic entanglement structure via monitored dynamics. Starting from random unitary circuits in $1+1$ dimensions, we introduce measurements with a spatiotemporally-modulated…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-30 Aditya Cowsik , Matteo Ippoliti , Xiao-Liang Qi

In this work we extensively study the dynamics of excited states created by instantaneous local quenches at two different points, i.e., double local quenches. We focus on setups in two dimensional holographic and free Dirac fermion CFTs. We…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-01-08 Pawel Caputa , Tokiro Numasawa , Teppei Shimaji , Tadashi Takayanagi , Zixia Wei

We study the evolution of holographic complexity in various AdS/CFT models containing cosmological crunch singularities. We find that a notion of complexity measured by extremal bulk volumes tends to decrease as the singularity is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-02-17 Jose L. F. Barbon , Eliezer Rabinovici

We extend the semiclassical black hole microstate construction to include quantum corrections to the microscopic entropy using a doubly holographic model of black holes. Specifically, we consider a double-sided black hole on a JT brane with…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-04-08 Dongming He , Juan Hernandez , Maria Knysh

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

One of the most exciting things in recent theoretical physics is the suspicion that gravity may be holographic, dual to some sort of quantum field theory living on the boundary with one less dimension. Such a suspicion has been supported…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-05-24 Yu Tian , Xiao-Ning Wu , Hongbao Zhang

In this note we discuss a possible holographic dual of the two dimensional conformal field theory associated with the world-sheet of a macroscopic superstring in a compactification on four-torus. We assume the near horizon geometry of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-02-09 Mohsen Alishahiha , Subir Mukhopadhyay

We use holographic methods to study the entanglement entropy for excited states in a two dimensional conformal field theory. The entangling area is a single interval and the excitations are produced by in and out vertex operators with given…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-03-27 Amin Faraji Astaneh , Amir Esmaeil Mosaffa