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The conditional shift in the evolution operator of a quantum walk generates entanglement between the coin and position degrees of freedom. This entanglement can be quantified by the von Neumann entropy of the reduced density operator…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 G. Abal , R. Siri , A. Romanelli , R. Donangelo

After quantum quenches in many-body systems, finite subsystems evolve non-trivially in time, eventually approaching a stationary state. In typical situations, the reduced density matrix of a given subsystem begins and ends this endeavour as…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-11-16 Isaac Reid , Bruno Bertini

We use a mix of field theoretic and holographic techniques to elucidate various properties of quantum entanglement entropy. In (3+1)-dimensional conformal field theory we study the divergent terms in the entropy when the entangling surface…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-07-13 Igor R. Klebanov , Tatsuma Nishioka , Silviu S. Pufu , Benjamin R. Safdi

In this paper, we demonstrate the emergence of nonlinear gravitational equations directly from the physics of a broad class of conformal field theories. We consider CFT excited states defined by adding sources for scalar primary or stress…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-09-13 Thomas Faulkner , Felix M. Haehl , Eliot Hijano , Onkar Parrikar , Charles Rabideau , Mark Van Raamsdonk

In this paper, we investigate the second and third pseudo R\'enyi entanglement entropies (PREE) for a locally excited state $| \psi \rangle $ and its time evolution $| \phi \rangle = e^{- i H t} | \psi \rangle$ in a two-dimensional…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-09-28 Farzad Omidi

Quantum physics, despite its observables being intrinsically of a probabilistic nature, does not have a quantum entropy assigned to them. We propose a quantum entropy that quantify the randomness of a pure quantum state via a conjugate pair…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-10-05 Davi Geiger , Zvi M. Kedem

We provide a field-theoretic method to calculate entanglement entropy of CFT in all dimensions. This method works for entangling surfaces of arbitrary shape. The formalism manifests a field-theoretic proof of the Ryu-Takayanagi formula.

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-01-06 Xin Jiang , Haitang Yang

In this thesis, we study aspects of entanglement theory of quantum field theories from an algebraic point of view. The main motivation is to gain insights about the general structure of the entanglement in QFT, towards a definition of an…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-08-30 Diego Pontello

We consider a set of fully connected spins models that display first- or second-order transitions and for which we compute the ground-state entanglement in the thermodynamical limit. We analyze several entanglement measures (concurrence,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-03-01 M. Filippone , S. Dusuel , J. Vidal

We study entanglement entropy for ball-shaped regions in excited states of holographic conformal field theories. The excited states are prepared by the Euclidean path integral in the CFT with a source turned on for some double-trace…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-04-15 Abhirup Bhattacharya , Onkar Parrikar

We investigate quantum dynamical systems defined on a finite dimensional Hilbert space and subjected to an interaction with an environment. The rate of decoherence of initially pure states, measured by the increase of their von Neumann…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Robert Alicki , Artur Lozinski , Prot Pakonski , Karol Zyczkowski

We study the dynamics of the geometric entanglement entropy of a 2D CFT in the presence of a boundary. We show that this dynamics is governed by local equations of motion, that take the same form as 2D Jackiw-Teitelboim gravity coupled to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-06-05 Nele Callebaut , Herman Verlinde

We compute the entanglement entropy for some quantum field theories on de Sitter space. We consider a superhorizon size spherical surface that divides the spatial slice into two regions, with the field theory in the standard vacuum state.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-11 Juan Maldacena , Guilherme L. Pimentel

We investigate the basic theoretical issues in the quantum entanglement of particle pairs created from the vacuum in a time-dependent background field or spacetime. Similar to entropy generation from these processes which depends on the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-05-07 Shih-Yuin Lin , Chung-Hsien Chou , B. L. Hu

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

For holographic CFT states near the vacuum, entanglement entropies for spatial subsystems can be expressed perturbatively as an expansion in the one-point functions of local operators dual to light bulk fields. Using the connection between…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-07-20 Matthew J. S. Beach , Jaehoon Lee , Charles Rabideau , Mark Van Raamsdonk

We study the unitary time evolution of the entropy of entanglement of a one-dimensional system between the degrees of freedom in an interval of length l and its complement, starting from a pure state which is not an eigenstate of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-02-16 Pasquale Calabrese , John Cardy

We investigate the interplay between unitary and non-unitary driven many-body dynamics in (1+1)-dimensional quantum critical systems described by conformal field theory (CFT). By formulating a coherent state approach, we demonstrate that…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-09-29 Bastien Lapierre , Pietro Pelliconi , Shinsei Ryu , Julian Sonner

In this work we calculate the entanglement entropy of certain excited states of the quantum Lifshitz model. The quantum Lifshitz model is a 2 + 1-dimensional bosonic quantum field theory with an anisotropic scaling symmetry between space…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-02-03 J. Angel-Ramelli

We advance the study of flat space holography by computing the entanglement entropy of highly excited states in two-dimensional Carrollian/Galilean Conformal Field Theories (C/G CFTs). Our approach is centered on a novel, physically…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-19 Peng-Xiang Hao , Shunta Takahashi