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We generalize the analysis of arXiv:1210.7244 to de Sitter space \alpha-vacua and compute the entanglement entropy of a free scalar for the half-sphere at late time.

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-07-26 Norihiro Iizuka , Toshifumi Noumi , Noriaki Ogawa

In this work, we study the phenomena of quantum entanglement by computing de Sitter entanglement entropy from von Neumann measure. For this purpose we consider a bipartite quantum field theoretic setup in presence of axion originating from…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-05-01 Sayantan Choudhury , Sudhakar Panda

The entanglement entropy of a massless scalar field in de Sitter space depends on multiple scales, such as the radius of the entangling surface, the Hubble constant and the UV cutoff. We perform a high-precision numerical calculation using…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-09-03 Konstantinos Boutivas , Dimitrios Katsinis , Georgios Pastras , Nikolaos Tetradis

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 compute the entanglement entropy of a free massive Dirac field between two causally disconnected open charts in de Sitter space. We first derive the Bunch-Davies vacuum mode functions of the Dirac field. We find there exists no…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-05-22 Sugumi Kanno , Misao Sasaki , Takahiro Tanaka

We explore entanglement entropy of a cap-like region for a generic quantum field theory residing in the Bunch-Davies vacuum on de Sitter space. Entanglement entropy in our setup is identical with the thermal entropy in the static patch of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-09-30 Omer Ben-Ami , Dean Carmi , Michael Smolkin

Entanglement entropy (EE) of a spatial region quantifies correlations between the region and its surroundings. For a free scalar in the adiabatic vacuum in de Sitter space the EE is known to remain low, scaling as the surface area of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-01-08 Sergei Khlebnikov , Akhil Sheoran

A free scalar field propagating in de Sitter space has a one parameter family of invariant states called the alpha-vacua. In an interacting theory, all except a unique state, the Bunch-Davies vacuum, produce non-renormalizable divergences.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-08-23 Hael Collins

Studies of quantum field entanglement in de Sitter space based on the von Neumann entropy of local patches have concluded that curvature enhances entanglement between regions and their complements. Similar conclusions about entanglement…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-04 Patricia Ribes-Metidieri , Ivan Agullo , Béatrice Bonga

In this work, we study the quantum entanglement and compute entanglement entropy in de Sitter space for a bipartite quantum field theory driven by axion originating from ${\bf Type~ IIB}$ string compactification on a Calabi Yau three fold…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-01-25 Sayantan Choudhury , Sudhakar Panda

The CPT invariant vacuum states of a scalar field in de Sitter space, called $\alpha$-vacua, are not unique. We explore the $\alpha$-vacua from the quantum information perspective by a pair of static Unruh-DeWitt (UDW) detectors coupled to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-04-27 Feng-Li Lin , Sayid Mondal

Attributing thermodynamic properties to the Bunch-Davies state in static patch of de Sitter space and setting the corresponding equations of state, we demonstrate that, for pure gravity, the bulk entropy computed on-shell as a volume…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-12-22 Dmitrii Diakonov

The entanglement entropy in a quantum field theory between two regions of space has been shown in simple cases to be proportional to the volume of the hypersurface separating the regions. We prove that this is true for a free scalar field…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Micheal S. Berger , Roman V. Buniy

We investigate the effect of infrared non-locality on the entanglement between two causally separated open-charts in the deSitter space-time. Inspired by the work of Maldacena and Pimentel who gave a precise methodology for the computation…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-06-12 Gaurav Narain , Hai-Qing Zhang

We study the entanglement entropy of the vacuum in non-relativistic local theories with Galilean or Schr\"{o}dinger symmetry. We clear some confusion in the literature on the free Schr\"odinger case. We find that with only positive $U(1)$…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-04-27 Itamar Hason

A scalar field in the ground state, when partially hidden from observation by a spherical boundary, acquires entanglement entropy $S$ proportional to the area of the surface. This area law is well established in flat space, where it follows…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-10-01 Katja Ried

We study the entanglement entropy within a spherical region for a free scalar field in a squeezed state in 3+1 dimensions. We show that, even for small squeezing, a volume term appears, whose coefficient is essentially independent of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-10-28 Dimitrios Katsinis , Georgios Pastras , Nikolaos Tetradis

We study the effect of a bubble wall on the entanglement entropy of a free massive scalar field between two causally disconnected open charts in de Sitter space. We assume there is a delta-functional wall between the open charts. This can…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-05-09 Andreas Albrecht , Sugumi Kanno , Misao Sasaki

In this paper we study various aspects of entanglement entropy in strongly-coupled de Sitter quantum field theories in various dimensions. We find gravity solutions that are dual to field theories in a fixed de Sitter background, both in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-07-08 Willy Fischler , Sandipan Kundu , Juan F. Pedraza

de Sitter space-time has a one complex parameter family of invariant vacua for the theory of a free, massive scalar field. For most of these vacua, in an interacting scalar theory the one loop corrections diverge linearly for large values…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 Hael Collins , R. Holman , Matthew R. Martin
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