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To this day, von Neumann definition of entropy remains the most popular measure of quantum entanglement. Much of the literature on entanglement entropy, particularly in the context of field theory, has focused on isolating the UV…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-02-27 S. Mahesh Chandran , S. Shankaranarayanan

The holographic entanglement entropy is computed for an entangling surface that coincides with the horizon of a boundary de Sitter metric. This is achieved through an appropriate slicing of anti-de Sitter space and the implementation of a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-06-17 Nikolaos Tetradis

Holographic entanglement entropy is a key concept linking quantum information theory and gravity. Since the original conjecture of Ryu and Takayanagi, holographic entanglement entropy has been generalized beyond Einstein--Hilbert gravity to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-02-13 Dušan Đorđević , Dragoljub Gočanin

In this paper, the isolated horizons with rotation are considered. It is shown that the symplectic form is the same as that in the nonrotating case. As a result, the boundary degrees of freedom can be also described by an SO$(1,1)$ BF…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-07-06 Jingbo Wang , Chao-Guang Huang

For an arbitrary quantum field in flat space with a planar boundary, an entropy of entanglement, associated with correlations across the boundary, is present when the field is in its vacuum state. The vacuum state of the same quantum field…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 D. Kabat , M. J. Strassler

We consider the nonrotating isolated horizon as an inner boundary of a four-dimensional asymptotically flat spacetime region. Due to the symmetry of the isolated horizon, it turns out that the boundary degrees of freedom can be described by…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-02 Jingbo Wang , Yongge Ma , Xu-An Zhao

A dynamical estimate is given for the Boltzmann entropy of the Universe, under the simplifying assumptions provided by Newtonian cosmology. We first model the cosmological fluid as the probability fluid of a quantum-mechanical system. Next,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-19 D. Cabrera , P. Fernandez de Cordoba , J. M. Isidro

By regarding the Einstein equations as equation(s) of state, we demonstrate that a full cohomogeneity horizon first law can be derived in horizon thermodynamics. In this approach both the entropy and the free energy are derived concepts,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-06-28 Devin Hansen , David Kubiznak , Robert Mann

We examine the entanglement in the ground states of helium and helium-like ions using an original Hylleraas expansion. The von Neumann and linear entropies of the reduced density matrix are accurately computed by performing the Schmidt…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-01-08 Przemyslaw Koscik , Anna Okopinska

We examine a possibility that, when a black hole is formed, the information on the collapsed star is stored as the entanglement entropy between the outside and the thin region (of the order of the Planck length) of the inside the horizon.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 Hiroaki Terashima

The enumeration of black hole entropy in candidate theories of quantum gravity utilises the quantum properties of microstates residing on the black hole horizon. For example, in Loop Quantum Gravity, the computation of entropy is based on…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-27 Sahil Devdutt , Akriti Garg , Ayan Chatterjee

The non-factorizing nature of the Hilbert space in Loop Quantum Gravity (LQG) due to gauge invariance requires a generalized definition of entanglement entropy. This work employs the framework of von Neumann algebras to investigate the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-04 Muxin Han

Restricted to a black hole horizon, the ``gauge'' algebra of surface deformations in general relativity contains a Virasoro subalgebra with a calculable central charge. The fields in any quantum theory of gravity must transform accordingly,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-04-28 S. Carlip

In the context of the holographic duality, the entanglement entropy of ordinary QFT in a subregion in the boundary is given by a quarter of the area of an minimal surface embedded in the bulk spacetime. This rule has been also extended to a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-08-26 Marcelo Botta-Cantcheff , Pedro J. Martinez , Juan F. Zarate

Entanglement for pure bipartite states is most commonly quantified in a state-by-state manner to each pure state of a bipartite system a scalar quantity, such as the von Neumann entropy of a reduced density matrix. This provides a precise…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-27 Loris Di Cairano

A `black hole sector' of non-perturbative canonical quantum gravity is introduced. The quantum black hole degrees of freedom are shown to be described by a Chern-Simons field theory on the horizon. It is shown that the entropy of a large…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-30 A. Ashtekar , J. Baez , A. Corichi , K. Krasnov

We study the effects of quantum fluctuations on the event horizon area and their implications for corrections to the Bekenstein-Hawking entropy. These quantum corrections are incorporated into the framework of large-scale gravitational…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-01-08 Alireza Maleki , Ahmad Sheykhi

We treat spherically symmetric black holes in Gauss-Bonnet gravity by imposing boundary conditions on fluctuating metric on the horizon. Obtained effective two-dimensional theory admits Virasoro algebra near the horizon. This enables, with…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-11-19 M. Cvitan , S. Pallua , P. Prester

We construct a new cosmological holographic dark energy scenario based on Loop Quantum Gravity inspired entropy, instead of the standard Bekenstein-Hawking one. The former is an extended black-hole entropy that arises from non-extensive…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-10-03 Andreas Lymperis

The quasi-local notion of an isolated horizon is employed to study the entropy of black holes without any particular symmetry in loop quantum gravity. The idea of characterizing the shape of a horizon by a sequence of local areas is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-11-02 Shupeng Song , Haida Li , Yongge Ma , Cong Zhang