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We give a recipe for computing correlation functions of the displacement operator localized on a spherical or planar higher dimensional twist defect using AdS/CFT. Such twist operators are typically used to construct the $n$'th Renyi…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-09-06 Srivatsan Balakrishnan , Souvik Dutta , Thomas Faulkner

The topological R\'enyi and entanglement entropies depend on the bipartition of the manifold and the choice of the ground states. However, these entanglement quantities remain invariant under a coordinate transformation when the bipartition…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-02-21 Chih-Yu Lo , Po-Yao Chang

In this work, we study the real-time evolution of pseudo-(R\'enyi) entropy, a generalization of entanglement entropy, in two-dimensional conformal field theories (CFTs). We focus on states obtained by acting primary operators located at…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-09-28 Wu-zhong Guo , Song He , Yu-Xuan Zhang

We compute the surface defect contribution to R\'{e}nyi entropy and supersymmetric R\'{e}nyi entropy in six dimensions. We first compute the surface defect contribution to R\'{e}nyi entropy for free fields, which verifies a previous formula…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-03-11 Ma-Ke Yuan , Yang Zhou

We continue the study of entanglement entropy for a QFT through a perturbative expansion of the path integral definition of the reduced density matrix. The universal entanglement entropy for a CFT perturbed by a relevant operator is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-23 Vladimir Rosenhaus , Michael Smolkin

In this work, we investigate the time evolution of the pseudo-(R\'enyi) entropy after local primary operator quenches in 2D CFTs with $T\bar T/J\bar T$-deformation. Using perturbation theory, we analyze the corrections to the second…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-09-08 Song He , Jie Yang , Yu-Xuan Zhang , Zi-Xuan Zhao

We compute the exact partition function on the branched two-sphere by the localization technique. It is found that it does not depend on a branching parameter q, which means that supersymmetric R\'enyi entropy defined by utilizing it is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-03-17 Hironori Mori

Quantum gravity in a finite region of spacetime is conjectured to be dual to a conformal field theory deformed by the irrelevant operator $T \overline{T}$. We test this conjecture with entanglement entropy, which is sensitive to ultraviolet…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-10-03 William Donnelly , Vasudev Shyam

We study the structure of divergences and universal terms of the entanglement and R\'enyi entropies for singular regions. First, we show that for $(3+1)$-dimensional free conformal field theories (CFTs), entangling regions emanating from…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-09-04 Pablo Bueno , Horacio Casini , William Witczak-Krempa

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

The entanglement entropy in three-dimensional conformal field theories (CFTs) receives a logarithmic contribution characterized by a regulator-independent function $a(\theta)$ when the entangling surface contains a sharp corner with opening…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-10-14 Pablo Bueno , Robert C. Myers , William Witczak-Krempa

We study the R\'enyi entropies of N disjoint intervals in the conformal field theories given by the free compactified boson and the Ising model. They are computed as the 2N point function of twist fields, by employing the partition function…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-01-27 Andrea Coser , Luca Tagliacozzo , Erik Tonni

Entanglement entropy in even dimensional conformal field theories (CFTs) contains well-known universal terms arising from the conformal anomaly. Renyi entropies are natural generalizations of the entanglement entropy that are much less…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-06-25 Jeongseog Lee , Lauren McGough , Benjamin R. Safdi

We describe the defect operator interpretation of the supersymmetric Renyi entropies of superconformal field theories in three, four and five dimensions. The operators involved are supersymmetric codimension-two defects in an auxiliary Z_n…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-12-06 Tatsuma Nishioka , Itamar Yaakov

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

Entanglement and the R\'enyi entropies for Dirac fermions on 2 dimensional torus in the presence of chemical potential, current source, and topological Wilson loop are unified in a single framework by exhausting all the ingredients of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-01-19 Bom Soo Kim

In this paper, we explore the concept of pseudo R\'enyi entropy within the context of quantum field theories (QFTs). The transition matrix is constructed by applying operators situated in different regions to the vacuum state. Specifically,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-05-15 Wu-zhong Guo , Yaozong Jiang

The asymptotic restriction problem for tensors can be reduced to finding all parameters that are normalized, monotone under restrictions, additive under direct sums and multiplicative under tensor products, the simplest of which are the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-02-13 Dávid Bugár , Péter Vrana

In this paper, we study the holographic R\'enyi entropy of a large interval on a circle at high temperature for the two-dimensional conformal field theory (CFT) dual to pure AdS$_3$ gravity. In the field theory, the R\'enyi entropy is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-11-11 Bin Chen , Jie-qiang Wu

We extend the approach of Casini, Huerta and Myers to a new calculation of the Renyi entropy of a general CFT in d dimensions with a spherical entangling surface, in terms of certain thermal partition functions. We apply this approach to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-11-07 Janet Hung , Robert C. Myers , Michael Smolkin , Alexandre Yale