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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 consider fine-grained probes of the entanglement structure of two dimensional conformal field theories deformed by the irrelevant double-trace operator $T\bar{T}$ and its closely related but nonetheless distinct single-trace counterpart.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-08-18 Meseret Asrat , Jonah Kudler-Flam

Recent work has shown that entanglement and the structure of spacetime are intimately related. One way to investigate this is to begin with an entanglement entropy in a conformal field theory (CFT) and use the AdS/CFT correspondence to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-01-13 Ashton Lowenstein , Avik Chakraborty

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

A recent proposal by Ryu and Takayanagi for a holographic interpretation of entanglement entropy in conformal field theories dual to supergravity on anti-de Sitter (adS) is generalized to include entanglement entropy of black holes living…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 Sergey N. Solodukhin

In the expanding universe, two interacting fields are no longer in thermal contact when the interaction rate becomes smaller than the Hubble expansion rate. After decoupling, two subsystems are usually treated separately in accordance with…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-12-20 Yuichiro Nakai , Noburo Shiba , Masaki Yamada

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

We use the replica method to compute the entanglement entropy of a universe without gravity entangled in a thermofield-double-like state with a disjoint gravitating universe. Including wormholes between replicas of the latter gives an…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-03-17 Vijay Balasubramanian , Arjun Kar , Tomonori Ugajin

Quantum simulation promises to have wide applications in many fields where problems are hard to model with classical computers. Various quantum devices of different platforms have been built to tackle the problems in, say, quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-08-28 Keren Li , Muxin Han , Dongxue Qu , Zichang Huang , Guilu Long , Yidun Wan , Dawei Lu , Bei Zeng , Raymond Laflamme

The study of entanglement in quantum field theories provides insight into universal properties which are typically challenging to extract by means of local observables. However, calculations of quantities related to entanglement in gauge…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2024-11-27 Andrea Bulgarelli , Marco Panero

In this paper, we explore the concept of pseudo R\'enyi entropy within the context of quantum field theories (QFTs). The transition matrix is constructed by applying operators situated in different regions to the vacuum state. Specifically,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-05-15 Wu-zhong Guo , Yaozong Jiang

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

We compute thermal corrections to R\'enyi entropies of $d$ dimensional conformal field theories on spheres. Consider the $n$th R\'enyi entropy for a cap of opening angle $2 \theta$ on $S^{d-1}$. From a Boltzmann sum decomposition and the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-07-02 Christopher P. Herzog , Jun Nian

We study metric transformations including not just the field strength tensor of a $U(1)$ gauge field, but also its dual tensor. We first consider an arbitrary symmetric matrix built up with these two tensors in the metric transformation. It…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-04-29 Antonio De Felice , Atsushi Naruko

We study entanglement entropy in two-dimensional conformal field theories with a gravitational anomaly. In theories with gravity duals, this anomaly is holographically represented by a gravitational Chern-Simons term in the bulk action. We…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-19 Alejandra Castro , Stephane Detournay , Nabil Iqbal , Eric Perlmutter

We compute the entanglement entropy in a two dimensional conformal field theory at finite size and finite temperature in the large central charge limit via the replica trick. We first generalize the known monodromy method for the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-10-30 Marius Gerbershagen

We study the ratio of the entropy to the total energy in conformal field theories at finite temperature. For the free field realizations of {\cal N}=4 super Yang-Mills theory in D=4 and the (2,0) tensor multiplet in D=6, the ratio is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 D. Klemm , A. C. Petkou , G. Siopsis

In this paper, we study the holographic R\'enyi entropy of a large interval on a circle at high temperature for the two-dimensional conformal field theory (CFT) dual to pure AdS$_3$ gravity. In the field theory, the R\'enyi entropy is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-11-11 Bin Chen , Jie-qiang Wu

We consider the universal logarithmic divergent term in the entanglement entropy of gauge fields in the Minkowski vacuum with an entangling sphere. Employing the mapping in arXiv:1102.0440, we analyze the corresponding thermal entropy on…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-17 Christopher Eling , Yaron Oz , Stefan Theisen

Entanglement entropy of gauge fields is calculated using the partition function in curved spacetime with a boundary. We derive a Gibbons-Hawking-like term from a Becchi-Rouet-Stora-Tyutin (BRST) action and a Wald-entropy-like codimension-2…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-02-02 Kuo-Wei Huang