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Entanglement entropy (EE) is a fundamental probe of quantum phases and critical phenomena, which was thought to reflect only bulk universality for a long time. Very recently, people realized that the microscopic geometry of the entanglement…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-01-21 Zhe Wang , Chunhao Guo , Bin-Bin Mao , Zheng Yan

We derive in detail several universal features in the time evolution of entanglement entropy and other nonlocal observables in quenched holographic systems. The quenches are such that a spatially uniform density of energy is injected at an…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-03-26 Hong Liu , S. Josephine Suh

We evaluate the entanglement entropy and entropic function of massive two dimensional QED (Schwinger model) at finite temperature, density, and $\theta$-angle. In the strong coupling regime, the entropic function is dominated by the boson…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-01-30 Sebastian Grieninger , Kazuki Ikeda , Dmitri E. Kharzeev , Ismail Zahed

We study the time evolution of single interval Renyi and entanglement entropies following local quantum quenches in two dimensional conformal field theories at finite temperature for which the locally excited states have a finite temporal…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-09-21 Justin R. David , Surbhi Khetrapal , S. Prem Kumar

We consider a quantum junction described by a 1+1-dimensional boundary conformal field theory (BCFT). Our analysis focuses on correlations emerging at finite temperature, achieved through the computation of entanglement measures. Our…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-05-28 Luca Capizzi , Andrei Rotaru

We investigate the behavior of the entanglement entropy of a confining gauge theory near cosmological singularities using gauge/gravity duality. As expected, the coefficients of the UV divergent terms are given by simple geometric…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-07-26 Netta Engelhardt , Gary T. Horowitz

Generally speaking, the entanglement entropy (EE) between two subregions of a gapped quantum many-body state is proportional to the area/length of their interface due to the short range quantum correlation. However, the so-called area law…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-12-20 Dan Ye , Yi Yang , Qi Li , Zi-Xiang Hu

Two-dimensional conformal field theories with a large central charge and a small number of low-dimension operators are studied using the conformal block expansion. A universal formula is derived for the Renyi entropies of N disjoint…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-03-29 Thomas Hartman

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

We study two-interval holographic entanglement entropy and entanglement wedge cross section in cutoff AdS. In particular, we investigate phase transitions of them. For two-interval entanglement entropy, the transition point monotonically…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-04-16 Toshihiro Ota

In the context of characterizing the structure of quantum entanglement in many-body systems, we introduce the entanglement contour, a tool to identify which real-space degrees of freedom contribute, and how much, to the entanglement of a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-11-25 Yangang Chen , Guifre Vidal

A quantum critical (QC) fluid exhibits universal subleading corrections to the area law of its entanglement entropies. In two dimensions when the partition involves a corner of angle $\theta$, the subleading term is logarithmic with…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-09-28 Johannes Helmes , Lauren E. Hayward Sierens , Anushya Chandran , William Witczak-Krempa , Roger G. Melko

We study the relative entanglement entropy (EE) among various primary excited states in two critical spin chains: the S=1/2 XXZ chain and the transverse field Ising chain at criticality. For the S=1/2 XXZ chain, which corresponds to c=1…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-09-26 Yuya O. Nakagawa , Tomonori Ugajin

We study stress tensor correlation functions in four-dimensional conformal field theories with large $N$ and a sparse spectrum. Theories in this class are expected to have local holographic duals, so effective field theory in anti-de Sitter…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-01-17 Nima Afkhami-Jeddi , Thomas Hartman , Sandipan Kundu , Amirhossein Tajdini

Renormalized entanglement entropy can be defined using the replica trick for any choice of renormalization scheme; renormalized entanglement entropy in holographic settings is expressed in terms of renormalized areas of extremal surfaces.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-12-28 Marika Taylor , Linus Too

We study the entanglement entropy between a strip region with width $2R$ and its complement in strongly coupled large-$N$ conformal field theory (CFT) on $\mathbb{R}^{1,n}$ with chemical potential and angular momentum in an thermal…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-09-13 Po-Chun Sun

We study the structure and dynamics of entanglement in CFTs and black holes. We use a local entanglement measure, the entanglement contour, which is a spatial density function for von Neumann entropy with some additional properties. The…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-03-09 Andrew Rolph

In recent years, the holographic duality between $T\bar{T}$-deformed conformal field theory (CFT) and Anti-de Sitter (AdS) spacetime with finite radial cutoff has received significant attention. The study of $T\bar{T}$ deformation within…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-07-10 Jing-Cheng Chang , Song He , Yu-Xiao Liu , Long Zhao

We study the entanglement entropy of gapped phases of matter in three spatial dimensions. We focus in particular on size-independent contributions to the entropy across entanglement surfaces of arbitrary topologies. We show that for low…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-05-11 Yunqin Zheng , Huan He , Barry Bradlyn , Jennifer Cano , Titus Neupert , B. Andrei Bernevig

Defects in two-dimensional conformal field theories (CFTs) contain signatures of their characteristics. In this work, we compute the entanglement entropy (EE) and the entanglement negativity (EN) of subsystems in the presence of energy and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-07-21 David Rogerson , Frank Pollmann , Ananda Roy