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This note discusses a method for computing the energy spectra of quantum field theory utilizing digital quantum simulation. A quantum algorithm, called coherent imaging spectroscopy, quenches the vacuum with a time-oscillating perturbation…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2024-04-24 Dongwook Ghim , Masazumi Honda

In the context of characterizing the structure of quantum entanglement in many-body systems, we introduce the entanglement contour, a tool to identify which real-space degrees of freedom contribute, and how much, to the entanglement of a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-11-25 Yangang Chen , Guifre Vidal

1+1 dimensional integrable quantum field theories correspond to a sparse subset of quantum field theories where the calculation of physically interesting observables can be brought to explicit, closed and manageable expressions thanks to…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-05-12 Karol K. Kozlowski

We employ holographic techniques to study quantum quenches at finite temperature, where the quenches involve varying the coupling of the boundary theory to a relevant operator with an arbitrary conformal dimension $2\leq\D\leq4$. The…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-15 Alex Buchel , Luis Lehner , Robert C. Myers , Anton van Niekerk

Measuring universal data in the strongly correlated regime of quantum critical points remains a fundamental objective for quantum simulators. In foundational work, Calabrese and Cardy demonstrated how this data governs the dynamics of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-30 Julia Wei , Méabh Allen , Jack Kemp , Chenbing Wang , Zixia Wei , Joel E. Moore , Norman Y. Yao

We study entanglement entropy in gravity theory with quantum effects. A simplest model is a two dimensional Einstein-Hilbert action . We use an $n$-sheet manifold to obtain an area term of entanglement entropy by summing over all background…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-09-12 Chen-Te Ma

Conformal truncation is a powerful numerical method for solving generic strongly-coupled quantum field theories based on purely field-theoretic technics without introducing lattice regularization. We discuss possible speedups for performing…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-12-04 Junyu Liu , Yuan Xin

We propose a novel family of entanglement measures for time-separated subsystems. Our definitions are applicable to any quantum system, continuous or discrete. To illustrate their utility, we derive upper and lower bounds on time-separated…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-16 Alexey Milekhin , Zofia Adamska , John Preskill

Quantum field theory is completely characterized by the field correlations between spacetime points. In turn, some of these can be accessed by locally coupling to the field simple quantum systems, a.k.a. particle detectors. In this work, we…

We describe a quench protocol that allows the rapid preparation of ground states of arbitrary interacting conformal field theories in $1+1$ dimensions. We start from the ground state of a related gapped relativistic quantum field theory and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-04-03 Prahar Mitra , Matteo Ippoliti , R. N. Bhatt , S. L. Sondhi , Kartiek Agarwal

We study the dynamics of (R\'enyi) mutual information, logarithmic negativity, and (R\'enyi) reflected entropy after exciting the ground state by a local operator. Together with recent results from Ref. [1], we are able to conjecture a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-03-31 Jonah Kudler-Flam , Yuya Kusuki , Shinsei Ryu

We study equilibration properties of observables in long-range field theories after the mass quench in $d=1,2$ and $3$ dimensions. We classify the regimes where we expect equilibration or its absence in different dimensions. In addition we…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-03-31 M. A. Rajabpour , S. Sotiriadis

We study in general the time-evolution of correlation functions in a extended quantum system after the quench of a parameter in the hamiltonian. We show that correlation functions in d dimensions can be extracted using methods of boundary…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-02-16 Pasquale Calabrese , John Cardy

In this review we first introduce the general methods to calculate the entanglement entropy for free fields, within the Euclidean and the real time formalisms. Then we describe the particular examples which have been worked out explicitly…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-12-08 H. Casini , M. Huerta

This thesis offers novel strategies for the measurement of quantum correlations present in controllable quantum systems, as well as for a full-fledged implementation of the models of light-matter interaction through which these correlations…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-11-30 Julen S. Pedernales

We study the time dependence of the entanglement entropy of disjoint intervals following a global quantum quench in (1+1)-dimensional CFTs at large-$c$ with a sparse spectrum. The result agrees with a holographic calculation but differs…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-12-16 Stefan Leichenauer , Mudassir Moosa

Conformal field theory (CFT) has been extremely successful in describing large-scale universal effects in one-dimensional (1D) systems at quantum critical points. Unfortunately, its applicability in condensed matter physics has been limited…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-02-15 Jérôme Dubail , Jean-Marie Stéphan , Jacopo Viti , Pasquale Calabrese

We consider the time evolution of the gaps of the entanglement spectrum for a block of consecutive sites in finite transverse field Ising chains after sudden quenches of the magnetic field. We provide numerical evidence that, whenever we…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-07-01 Jacopo Surace , Luca Tagliacozzo , Erik Tonni

We numerically simulate the time evolution of the Ising field theory after quenches starting from the $E_8$ integrable model using the Truncated Conformal Space Approach. The results are compared with two different analytic predictions…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-09-26 Kristóf Hódsági , Márton Kormos , Gábor Takács

We apply the linked cluster expansion as well as the quench action approach to study the time evolution of one-point functions after a quantum quench in integrable field theories. We argue that the relaxation towards the stationary value…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-04-01 Emanuele Di Salvo , Dirk Schuricht