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We consider the bipartite entanglement entropy of ground states of extended quantum systems with a large degeneracy. Often, as when there is a spontaneously broken global Lie group symmetry, basis elements of the lowest-energy space form a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-05-30 Olalla A. Castro-Alvaredo , Benjamin Doyon

We present a new approach to obtaining the scaling behavior of the entanglement entropy in fractional quantum Hall states from finite-size wavefunctions. By employing the torus geometry and the fact that the torus aspect ratio can be…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-13 Andreas Laeuchli , Emil J. Bergholtz , Masudul Haque

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

The prospect of realizing highly entangled states on quantum processors with fundamentally different hardware geometries raises the question: to what extent does a state of a quantum spin system have an intrinsic geometry? In this paper, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-03 Ali Elokl , Corey Jones

There is no doubt that the information hidden in entanglement entropy (EE), for example, the $n$-th order R\'enyi EE, i.e., $S^{A}_n=\frac{1}{1-n}\ln \Tr (\rho_A^n)$ where $\rho_A=\mathrm{Tr}_{\overline{A}}\rho$ is the reduced density…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-08-30 Gaopei Pan , Yuan Da Liao , Weilun Jiang , Jonathan D'Emidio , Yang Qi , Zi Yang Meng

In this article we consider physical states in the hypercuboidal truncation of the EPRL-FK spin foam quantum gravity model. In particular, these states are defined on graphs which allow considering the entanglement entropy (EE) associated…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-06-17 Benjamin Bahr

Simulating strongly-correlated quantum systems in continuous space belongs to the most challenging and long-concerned issues in quantum physics. This work investigates the quantum entanglement and criticality of the ground-state…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-17 Rui Hong , Hao-Wei Cui , An-Chun Ji , Shi-Ju Ran

We study the entanglement spectrum (ES) of two-dimensional $C_{n}$-symmetric second-order topological insulators (TIs). We show that some characteristic higher order topological observables, e.g., the filling anomaly and its associated…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-03-23 Penghao Zhu , Kieran Loehr , Taylor L. Hughes

In the presence of a sharp corner in the boundary of the entanglement region, the entanglement entropy (EE) and Renyi entropies for 3d CFTs have a logarithmic term whose coefficient, the corner function, is scheme-independent. In the limit…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-08-12 Henriette Elvang , Marios Hadjiantonis

A set of quantum states is said to be absolutely entangled, when at least one state in the set remains entangled for any definition of subsystems, i.e. for any choice of the global reference frame. In this work we investigate the properties…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-10-05 Baichu Yu , Pooja Jayachandran , Adam Burchardt , Yu Cai , Nicolas Brunner , Valerio Scarani

This work presents a study of the entanglement entropy (EE) in a class of four-dimensional ${\cal N}=1$ linear quiver SCFTs deformed by the presence of a VEV. We review the holographic backgrounds dual to these theories, and calculate the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-09-25 Dimitrios Chatzis , Ali Fatemiabhari , Mauro Giliberti , Madison Hammond

In continuous quantum field theories, the entanglement entropy of a subsystem with sharp corners on its boundary exhibits a universal corner-dependent contribution. We study this contribution through the lens of lattice discretization, and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-29 Noa Feldman , Moshe Goldstein

The entanglement properties of a class of topological stabilizer states, the so called \emph{topological color codes} defined on a two-dimensional lattice or \emph{2-colex}, are calculated. The topological entropy is used to measure the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Mehdi Kargarian

We study the entanglement entropy of gapped phases of matter in three spatial dimensions. We focus in particular on size-independent contributions to the entropy across entanglement surfaces of arbitrary topologies. We show that for low…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-05-11 Yunqin Zheng , Huan He , Barry Bradlyn , Jennifer Cano , Titus Neupert , B. Andrei Bernevig

Time-dependent entanglement entropy (EE) is computed for a single interval in two-dimensional conformal theories from a quenched initial state in the presence of spatial boundaries. The EE is found to be periodic in time with periodicity…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-04-28 Gautam Mandal , Ritam Sinha , Tomonori Ugajin

We use holographic duality to study the entanglement entropy (EE) of Conformal Field Theories (CFTs) in various spacetime dimensions $d$, in the presence of various deformations: a relevant Lorentz scalar operator with constant source, a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-11-22 Nikola I. Gushterov , Andy O'Bannon , Ronnie Rodgers

The topological entanglement entropy (TEE) is a robust measurement of the quantum many-body state with topological order. In fractional quantum Hall (FQH) state, it has a connection to the quantum dimension of the state itself and its…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-01-30 Na Jiang , Qi Li , Zheng Zhu , Zi-Xiang Hu

In this paper we study the effect of non-trivial spatial topology on quantum entanglement by examining the degenerate ground states of a topologically ordered system on torus. Using the string-net (fixed-point) wave-function, we propose a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-08-17 Zhu-Xi Luo , Yu-Ting Hu , Yong-Shi Wu

In this paper, we focus on the entanglement entropy associated with a particle confined to a torus with constant metric and $\theta$-terms related to a constant external $U(1)$-gauge field. Through this investigation, we aim to elucidate…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-06-16 Helmuth Huffel , Gerald Kelnhofer

We formulate confinement in QCD as an entropic surface phenomenon. Quark and gluon quantum information is localized on a transverse entangling two-sphere of radius $R_{EE}$; at this radius the QCD vacuum -- partitioned by a hadron into…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-12-19 Kiminad A. Mamo