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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

For a conformal field theory (CFT) deformed by a relevant operator, the entanglement entropy of a ball-shaped region may be computed as a perturbative expansion in the coupling. A similar perturbative expansion exists for excited states…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-05-04 Antony J. Speranza

We use the techniques in symmetric orbifolding to calculate the Entanglement Entropy of a single interval in a two dimensional conformal field theory on a circle which is excited to a pure highest weight state. This is achieved by…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-08-17 Amir Esmaeil Mosaffa

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 Conformal Field Theories with a gravitational AdS dual it is possible to calculate the entanglement entropy of a region $A$ holographically by using the Ryu-Takayanagi formula. In this work we consider systems that are in a pure state…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-07-06 Stefano Giusto , Rodolfo Russo

We argue that the usual notions of thermodynamic and entanglement entropy have novel analogs in the context of higher spin theories. In particular, the Wald and Ryu-Takayanagi formulas have natural higher spin extensions that we work out…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-19 Eliot Hijano , Per Kraus

We study the time evolution of Renyi entanglement entropy for locally excited states in two dimensional large central charge CFTs. It generically shows a logarithmical growth and we compute the coefficient of $\log t$ term. Our analysis…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-03-14 Yuya Kusuki , Tadashi Takayanagi

In this thesis we apply techniques from quantum information theory to study quantum gravity within the framework of the anti-de Sitter / conformal field theory correspondence (AdS/CFT). Through AdS/CFT, progress has been made in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-10-01 Jesse C. Cresswell

We evaluate one-interval R\'enyi entropy and entanglement entropy for the excited states of two-dimensional conformal field theory (CFT) on a cylinder, and examine their differences from the ones for the thermal state. We assume the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-11-29 Feng-Li Lin , Huajia Wang , Jia-ju Zhang

We consider conformal blocks of two heavy operators and an arbitrary number of light operators in a (1+1)-d CFT with large central charge. Using the monodromy method, these higher-point conformal blocks are shown to factorize into products…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-05-27 Pinaki Banerjee , Shouvik Datta , Ritam Sinha

We test the proposal of arXiv:2012.11274 for the holographic computation of the charged moments and the resulting symmetry-resolved entanglement entropy in different excited states, as well as for two entangling intervals. Our holographic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-01-12 Konstantin Weisenberger , Suting Zhao , Christian Northe , René Meyer

R\'enyi entanglement entropy provides a new window to study the AdS/CFT correspondence. In this paper we consider the short interval expansion of R\'enyi entanglement entropy in two-dimensional conformal field theory. This amounts to do the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-12-19 Bin Chen , Jia-ju Zhang

We present the analytical calculation of entanglement entropy for a class of two dimensional field theories governed by the symmetries of the Galilean conformal algebra, thus providing a rare example of such an exact computation. These…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-03-25 Arjun Bagchi , Rudranil Basu , Daniel Grumiller , Max Riegler

The charged (symmetry-resolved) vacuum R\'enyi entanglement entropy on a disk is computed in the limit of large U(1) global charge for any R\'enyi index. We show that it behaves universally for a broad class of conformal field theories…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-10-08 Masataka Watanabe

We present a simple prescription for computing conformal blocks and correlation functions holographically in AdS$_3$ in terms of Wilson lines merging at a bulk vertex. This is shown to reproduce global conformal blocks and heavy-light…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-09-21 Mert Besken , Ashwin Hegde , Eliot Hijano , Per Kraus

In this paper we study the scaling of the correction of the Renyi entropy of the excited states in systems described, in the continuum limit, by a conformal field theory (CFT). These corrections scale as $L^{-\frac{2\Delta}{n}}$, where $L$…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-01-11 Lorenzo Cevolani

An entanglement Renyi entropy for a spatial partition of a system is studied in conformal theories which admit a dual description in terms of an anti-de Sitter gravity. The divergent part of the Renyi entropy is computed in 4D conformal N=4…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-03 Dmitri V. Fursaev

We consider the entanglement entropy in 2d conformal field theory in a class of excited states produced by the insertion of a heavy local operator. These include both high-energy eigenstates of the Hamiltonian and time-dependent local…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-03-27 Curtis T. Asplund , Alice Bernamonti , Federico Galli , Thomas Hartman

We study the correlators of the 2d W_N minimal model in the semiclassical regime with large central charge from bulk viewpoint by utilizing open Wilson lines in sl(N) Chern-Simons gauge theory. We extend previous works for the tree level of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-12-01 Yasuaki Hikida , Takahiro Uetoko

We consider symmetry-resolved entanglement entropy in AdS${}_3$/CFT${}_2$ coupled to $U(1)$ Chern-Simons theory. We identify the holographic dual of the charged moments in the two-dimensional conformal field theory as a charged Wilson line…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-07-28 Suting Zhao , Christian Northe , René Meyer