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We develop a method to calculate generic time-dependent correlation functions for inhomogeneous quantum quenches in (1+1)-dimensional conformal field theory (CFT) induced by sudden Hamiltonian deformations that modulate the energy density…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-06-06 Xinyu Liu , Alexander McDonald , Tokiro Numasawa , Biao Lian , Shinsei Ryu

In circuit-based quantum state preparation, qubit loss and coherent errors are circuit imperfections that imperil the formation of long-range entanglement beyond a certain threshold. The critical theory at the threshold is a continuous…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-30 Malte Pütz , Romain Vasseur , Andreas W. W. Ludwig , Simon Trebst , Guo-Yi Zhu

By using Araki's relative entropy, Lieb's convexity and the theory of singular integrals, we compute the mutual information associated with free fermions, and we deduce many results about entropies for chiral CFT's which are embedded into…

Operator Algebras · Mathematics 2017-12-21 Roberto Longo , Feng Xu

We investigate the reflected entropy for bipartite mixed state configurations in a $T\bar{T}$ deformed boundary conformal field theory in $2$ dimensions (BCFT$_2$). The bulk dual is described by asymptotically AdS$_3$ geometries with the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-07-01 Debarshi Basu , Himanshu Chourasiya , Ankur Dey , Vinayak Raj

A generalized theory of two-dimensional isotropic turbulence is developed based on conformal symmetry. A number of minimal models of conformal turbulence are solved under an extended constraint including both the enstrophy cascade by…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-02-03 H. Cateau , Y. Matsuo , M. Umeki

Defects play a central role in many contexts, from condensed matter to quantum gravity. The situations in which the bulk theory is conformal and the defect inherits part of this symmetry -- the so-called defect conformal field theories…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-02-25 Luigi Castiglioni , Silvia Penati , Marcia Tenser , Diego Trancanelli

On a manifold with boundary, the constraint algebra of general relativity may acquire a central extension, which can be computed using covariant phase space techniques. When the boundary is a (local) Killing horizon, a natural set of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-04-28 S. Carlip

In this paper we study the constraints imposed by conformal invariance on extended objects a.k.a defects in a conformal field theory. We identify a particularly nice class of defects that is closed under conformal transformations.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-02-23 Abhijit Gadde

We study coupled unitary Virasoro minimal models in the large rank ($m \rightarrow \infty$) limit. In large $m$ perturbation theory, we find two non-trivial IR fixed points which exhibit irrational coefficients in several anomalous…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-02-21 António Antunes , Connor Behan

The entanglement entropy of spacetime regions $A$ in odd-dimensional conformal field theories (CFTs) contains a universal constant term, $(-1)^{\frac{d-1}{2}}F(A)$. This quantity can be robustly defined by considering the mutual information…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-04-03 Pablo Bueno , Adam Fernández García , Francesco Gentile , Oscar Lasso Andino , Javier Moreno

The quantum theory of near horizon regions of spacetimes with classical spatially flat, homogeneous and isotropic Friedman-Robertson-Walker geometry can be approximately described by a two dimensional conformal field theory. The central…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 Ram Brustein

Conformal field theory (CFT) is an extremely powerful tool for explicitly computing critical exponents and correlation functions of statistical mechanics systems at a second order phase transition, or of condensed matter systems at a…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2021-02-23 Alessandro Giuliani

The entanglement "first law" in conformal field theories relates the entanglement entropy for a ball-shaped region to an integral over the same region involving the expectation value of the CFT stress-energy tensor, for infinitesimal…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-05-14 Brian Swingle , Mark Van Raamsdonk

The charged moments of a reduced density matrix provide a natural starting point for deriving symmetry-resolved R\'enyi and entanglement entropies, which quantify how entanglement is distributed among symmetry sectors in the presence of a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-02-13 Giorgio Li , Léonce Dupays , Paola Ruggiero

A state in a quantum system with a given global symmetry, $G$, can be sensitive to the presence of boundaries, which may either preserve or break this symmetry. In this work, we investigate how conformal invariant boundary conditions…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-09-15 Yuya Kusuki , Sara Murciano , Hirosi Ooguri , Sridip Pal

The entropic mechanism for producing nearly scale-invariant density perturbations in a contracting ekpyrotic universe relies on having an unstable scalar potential. Here we develop a variant of this mechanism (recently proposed by Qiu, Gao…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-06-11 Angelika Fertig , Jean-Luc Lehners , Enno Mallwitz

We present a derivation of the entropy of black holes in induced gravity models based on conformal properties of induced gravity constituents near the horizon. The four-dimensional (4D) theory is first reduced to a tower of two-dimensional…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 V. Frolov , D. Fursaev , A. Zelnikov

Entanglement is resolved in conformal field theory (CFT) with respect to conformal families to all orders in the UV cutoff. To leading order, symmetry-resolved entanglement is connected to the quantum dimension of a conformal family, while…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-10-10 Christian Northe

In this work, we formulate a path-integral optimization for two dimensional conformal field theories perturbed by relevant operators. We present several evidences how this optimization mechanism works, based on calculations in free field…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-07-13 Arpan Bhattacharyya , Pawel Caputa , Sumit R. Das , Nilay Kundu , Masamichi Miyaji , Tadashi Takayanagi

The entanglement spectra for a subsystem in a spin chain fine-tuned to a quantum-critical point contains signatures of the underlying quantum field theory that governs its low-energy properties. For an open chain with given boundary…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-26 Ananda Roy , Sergei L. Lukyanov , Hubert Saleur