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We consider a conformal field theory in two dimensions in which an external perturbation is placed. We study the energy flux and entanglement entropy for one, two and multiple intervals and give a suggestion relating the two in some cases.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-11-01 Talya Vaknin

The subleading corner logarithmic corrections in entanglement entropy (EE) are crucial for revealing universal characteristics of the quantum critical points (QCPs), but they are challenging to detect. Motivated by recent developments in…

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Partition functions of quantum critical systems, expressed as conformal thermal tensor networks, are defined on various manifolds which can give rise to universal entropy corrections. Through high-precision tensor network simulations of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-11-29 Lei Chen , Hao-Xin Wang , Lei Wang , Wei Li

We analyze how excitations affect the entanglement entropy for an arbitrary entangling interval in a 2d conformal field theory (CFT) using the holographic entanglement entropy techniques as well as direct CFT computations. We introduce the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-01-16 M. M. Sheikh-Jabbari , H. Yavartanoo

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 massless spin $2$ field in a sphere in flat Minkowski space. We describe the theory with a linearized metric perturbation field $h_{\mu\nu}$ and decompose it in tensor spherical harmonics. We fix the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-02-12 Valentin Benedetti , Horacio Casini

We demonstrate that for general conformal field theories (CFTs), the entanglement for small perturbations of the vacuum is organized in a novel holographic way. For spherical entangling regions in a constant time slice, perturbations in the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-02-15 Jan de Boer , Michal P. Heller , Robert C. Myers , Yasha Neiman

The thermal partition function, $Z$, of a $CFT_d$ on $S^{d-1}$ is parameterized by the inverse temperature $\beta$ along with $\lfloor d/2\rfloor$ angular velocities $\omega_i$. In this paper, we investigate the behaviour of this partition…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-12-02 Harsh Anand , Nathan Benjamin , Vipul Kumar , Shiraz Minwalla , Jyotirmoy Mukherjee , Sridip Pal , Asikur Rahaman

We compute R\'enyi entropies for a spherical entangling surface in four-dimensional N=4 super-Yang-Mills at strong coupling using the AdS/CFT correspondence. Incorporating the effects of the leading \alpha' corrections to the low energy…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-16 Damian A. Galante , Robert C. Myers

This is an extended version of our short report hep-th/0603001, where a holographic interpretation of entanglement entropy in conformal field theories is proposed from AdS/CFT correspondence. In addition to a concise review of relevant…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-02-03 Shinsei Ryu , Tadashi Takayanagi

Correlation function of twist operators is a natural quantity of interest in two-dimensional conformal field theory (2d CFT) and finds relevance in various physical contexts. For computing twist operator correlators associated with generic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-07-10 Hewei Frederic Jia

We study the universal scaling behavior of the entanglement entropy of critical theories in $2+1$ dimensions. We specially consider two fermionic scale-invariant models, free massless Dirac fermions and a model of fermions with quadratic…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-02-24 Xiao Chen , Gil Young Cho , Thomas Faulkner , Eduardo Fradkin

Entanglement entropy and entanglement spectrum have been widely used to characterize quantum entanglement in extended many-body systems. Given a pure state of the system and a division into regions $A$ and $B$, they can be obtained in terms…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-10-23 Qi Hu , Adrian Franco-Rubio , Guifre Vidal

A system of fermions forming a Fermi surface exhibits a large degree of quantum entanglement, even in the absence of interactions. In particular, the usual case of a codimension one Fermi surface leads to a logarithmic violation of the area…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-06-14 Michael Pretko

Celestial holography is the conjecture that scattering amplitudes in $(d+2)$-dimensional asymptotically Minkowski spacetimes are dual to correlators of a $d$-dimensional conformal field theory (CFT) on the celestial sphere, called the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-08-19 Federico Capone , Andy O'Bannon , Ronnie Rodgers , Somyadip Thakur

In this paper we compute the leading correction to the bipartite entanglement entropy at large sub-system size, in integrable quantum field theories with diagonal scattering matrices. We find a remarkably universal result, depending only on…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-01-27 J. L. Cardy , O. A. Castro-Alvaredo , B. Doyon

In this paper we study the simplest massive 1+1 dimensional integrable quantum field theory which can be described as a perturbation of a non-unitary minimal conformal field theory: the Lee-Yang model. We are particularly interested in the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-09-07 Davide Bianchini , Olalla A. Castro-Alvaredo , Benjamin Doyon

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

We study the holographic entanglement entropy of deformed entangling regions in three-dimensional CFTs dual to Einstein-AdS gravity, using a renormalization scheme based on the addition of extrinsic counterterms. In this prescription, when…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-10-28 Giorgos Anastasiou , Javier Moreno , Rodrigo Olea , David Rivera-Betancour

Entanglement entropy quantifies the amount of uncertainty of a quantum state. For quantum fields in curved space, entanglement entropy of the quantum field theory degrees of freedom is well-defined for a fixed background geometry. In this…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-10-28 Xi Dong , Xiao-Liang Qi , Zhou Shangnan , Zhenbin Yang