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The Ryu-Takayanagi formula relates entanglement entropy in a field theory to the area of extremal surfaces anchored to the boundary of a dual AdS space. It is interesting to ask if there is also an information theoretic interpretation of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-12-19 Vijay Balasubramanian , Charles Rabideau

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

Entanglement entropies computed using the holographic Ryu-Takayanagi formula are known to obey an infinite set of linear inequalities, which define the so-called RT entropy cone. The general structure of this cone, or equivalently the set…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-06 Guglielmo Grimaldi , Matthew Headrick , Veronika E. Hubeny

We apply artificial neural networks to the holographic inverse problem, reconstructing bulk geometry from boundary entanglement entropy by using the Ryu--Takayanagi area functional as a differentiable loss. Validated on the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-04-08 Veselin G. Filev

In this work, we first introduce a generalized von Neumann entropy that depends only on the density matrix. This is based on a previous proposal by one of us modifying the Shannon entropy by considering non-equilibrium systems on stationary…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-07-06 Nana Cabo Bizet , Octavio Obregón

Headrick and Takayanagi showed that the Ryu-Takayanagi holographic entanglement entropy formula generally obeys the strong subadditivity (SSA) inequality, a fundamental property of entropy. However, the Ryu-Takayanagi formula only applies…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-04 Robert Callan , Jianyang He , Matthew Headrick

We derive the geodesic equation for determining the Ryu-Takayanagi surface in $AdS_3$ deformed by single trace $\mu T \bar T + \varepsilon_+ J \bar T + \varepsilon_- T \bar J$ deformation for generic values of $(\mu, \varepsilon_+,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-03-17 Soumangsu Chakraborty , Akikazu Hashimoto

We compute the entanglement entropy and Renyi entropies of arbitrary pure states in pure Jackiw-Teitelboim gravity in Lorentz signature. We apply the quantum Hubeny-Rangamani-Ryu-Takayanagi formula by computing the quantum corrected area…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-01-11 Daniel Louis Jafferis , David K. Kolchmeyer

We consider entanglement entropy in quantum field theories with a gravity dual. In the gravity description, the leading order contribution comes from the area of a minimal surface, as proposed by Ryu-Takayanagi. Here we describe the one…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-16 Thomas Faulkner , Aitor Lewkowycz , Juan Maldacena

We propose a framework for preparing quantum states with a holographic entanglement structure, in the sense that the entanglement entropies are governed by minimal surfaces in a chosen bulk geometry. We refer to such entropies as…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-30 Jonathan Jeffrey , Lucien Gandarias , Monika Schleier-Smith , Brian Swingle

We derive the holographic entanglement entropy functional for a generic gravitational theory whose action contains terms up to cubic order in the Riemann tensor, and in any dimension. This is the simplest case for which the so-called…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-01-11 Elena Cáceres , Rodrigo Castillo Vásquez , Alejandro Vilar López

We study the entanglement entropy in confining theories with gravity duals using the holographic prescription of Ryu and Takayanagi. The entanglement entropy between a region and its complement is proportional to the minimal area of a bulk…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-18 Ari Pakman , Andrei Parnachev

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

We study shape-deformations of the entanglement entropy and the modular Hamiltonian for an arbitrary subregion and state (with a smooth dual geometry) in a holographic conformal field theory. More precisely, we study a double-deformation…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-07-04 Aitor Lewkowycz , Onkar Parrikar

We consider the time evolution of two entropy-like quantities, the holographic entanglement entropy and causal holographic information, in a model of holographic thermalization dual to the gravitational collapse of a thin planar shell.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-09-24 Ville Keranen , Hiromichi Nishimura , Stefan Stricker , Olli Taanila , Aleksi Vuorinen

Entanglement entropy of quantum fields in gravitational settings is a topic of growing importance. This entropy of entanglement is conventionally computed relative to Cauchy hypersurfaces where it is possible via a partial tracing to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-05-07 Yangang Chen , Lucas Hackl , Ravi Kunjwal , Heidar Moradi , Yasaman K. Yazdi , Miguel Zilhão

The Ryu-Takayanagi conjecture establishes a remarkable connection between quantum systems and geometry. Specifically, it relates the entanglement entropy to minimal surfaces within the setting of AdS/CFT correspondence. This Letter shows…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-03-14 Stefan Kehrein

We compute the bulk entanglement entropy across the Ryu-Takayanagi surface for a one-particle state in a scalar field theory in AdS$_3$. We work directly within the bulk Hilbert space and include the spatial spread of the scalar…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-09-26 Alexandre Belin , Nabil Iqbal , Sagar F. Lokhande

We study the dynamics of gravitationally collapsing massive shells in AdS spacetime, and show in detail how one can determine extremal surfaces traversing them. The results are used to solve the time evolution of the holographic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-04-01 Ville Keranen , Hiromichi Nishimura , Stefan Stricker , Olli Taanila , Aleksi Vuorinen

In holographic theories, the Hubeny-Rangamani-Takayanagi (HRT) area operator plays a key role in our understanding of the emergence of semiclassical Einstein-Hilbert gravity. When higher derivative corrections are included, the role of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-02-10 Xi Dong , Donald Marolf , Pratik Rath