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We explore the fine structure of the holographic entanglement entropy proposal (the Ryu-Takayanagi formula) in AdS$_3$/CFT$_{2}$. With the guidance from the boundary and bulk modular flows we find a natural slicing of the entanglement wedge…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-11-14 Qiang Wen

Tensor networks, $T\bar{T}$, and broader notions of a holographic principle all motivate the idea that some notion of gravitational holography should persist in the presence of a radial cutoff. But in the absence of time-reflection…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-02-03 Brianna Grado-White , Donald Marolf , Sean J. Weinberg

The Ryu-Takayanagi formula provides the entanglement entropy of quantum field theory as an area of the minimal surface (Ryu-Takayangi surface) in a corresponding gravity theory. There are some attempts to understand the formula as a flow…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-12-30 Jun Tsujimura , Yasusada Nambu

These notes, based on lectures given at various schools over the last few years, aim to provide an introduction to entanglement entropies in quantum field theories, including holographic ones. We explore basic properties and simple examples…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-07-19 Matthew Headrick

In this paper we study the holographic entanglement entropy in a large N noncommutative gauge field theory with two $\theta$ parameters by Ryu-Takayanagi prescription (RT-formula). We discuss what contributions the presence of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-12-16 Tuo Jia , Zhaojie Xu

In 2006, Ryu and Takayanagi (RT) pointed out that (with a suitable cutoff) the entanglement entropy between two complementary regions of an equal-time surface of a d+1-dimensional conformal field theory on the conformal boundary of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-05-26 Bernard S. Kay

Entanglement entropies computed using the holographic Ryu-Takayanagi formula are known to obey an infinite set of linear inequalities, which define the so-called RT entropy cone. The general structure of this cone, or equivalently the set…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-06 Guglielmo Grimaldi , Matthew Headrick , Veronika E. Hubeny

In tensor networks, a geometric operation of pushing a bond cut surface toward a minimal surface corresponds to entanglement distillation. Cutting bonds defines a reduced transition matrix on the bond cut surface and the associated quantum…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-10-17 Takato Mori , Hidetaka Manabe , Hiroaki Matsueda

Bit threads, a dual description of the Ryu-Takyanagi formula for holographic entanglement entropy (EE), can be interpreted as a distillation of the quantum information to a collection of Bell pairs between different boundary regions. In…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-10-19 Jonathan Harper

In the context of holographic duality with AdS3 asymptotics, the Ryu-Takayanagi formula states that the entanglement entropy of a subregion is given by the length of a certain bulk geodesic. The entanglement entropy can be operationalized…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-04-05 Bartlomiej Czech , Patrick Hayden , Nima Lashkari , Brian Swingle

We study the entanglement entropy of a random tensor network (RTN) using tools from free probability theory. Random tensor networks are simple toy models that help the understanding of the entanglement behavior of a boundary region in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-04 Khurshed Fitter , Faedi Loulidi , Ion Nechita

We study a class of quantum states involving multiple entangled CFTs in AdS$_3$/CFT$_2$, associated with multi-boundary black hole geometries, and demonstrate that the Ryu-Takayanagi (RT) formula for entanglement entropy can be derived…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-01-01 Ning Bao , Hao Geng , Yikun Jiang

The Ryu-Takayanagi prescription can be cast in terms of a set of microscopic threads that help visualize holographic entanglement in terms of distillation of EPR pairs. While this framework has been exploited for regions with a high degree…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-09-15 Umut Gürsoy , Juan F. Pedraza , Guim Planella Planas

We initiate a systematic enumeration and classification of entropy inequalities satisfied by the Ryu-Takayanagi formula for conformal field theory states with smooth holographic dual geometries. For 2, 3, and 4 regions, we prove that the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-09-23 Ning Bao , Sepehr Nezami , Hirosi Ooguri , Bogdan Stoica , James Sully , Michael Walter

The Ryu-Takayanagi formula relates the entanglement entropy in a conformal field theory to the area of a minimal surface in its holographic dual. We show that this relation can be inverted for any state in the conformal field theory to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-10 Jennifer Lin , Matilde Marcolli , Hirosi Ooguri , Bogdan Stoica

We propose a framework for preparing quantum states with a holographic entanglement structure, in the sense that the entanglement entropies are governed by minimal surfaces in a chosen bulk geometry. We refer to such entropies as…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-30 Jonathan Jeffrey , Lucien Gandarias , Monika Schleier-Smith , Brian Swingle

When a spacetime has boundaries, the entangling surface does not have to be necessarily compact and it may have boundaries as well. Then there appear a new, boundary, contribution to the entanglement entropy due to the intersection of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-06-07 Amin Faraji Astaneh , Clement Berthiere , Dmitri Fursaev , Sergey N. Solodukhin

We generalize holographic bit threads to bulk theories with a gravitational action containing higher-curvature terms. Bit threads are a reformulation of holographic entanglement entropy, where the entropy is given by the maximum number of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-12-04 Jonathan Harper , Matthew Headrick , Andrew Rolph

Quantities computed by minimal cuts, such as entanglement entropies achievable by the Ryu-Takayanagi proposal in the AdS/CFT correspondence, are constrained by linear inequalities. We prove a previously conjectured property of all such…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-02-10 Bartlomiej Czech , Yichen Feng , Xianlai Wu , Minjun Xie

We present a constructive algorithm for the determination of Ryu-Takayanagi surfaces in AdS3/CFT2 which exploits previously noted connections between holographic entanglement entropy and max-flow/min-cut. We then characterize its complexity…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-11-23 Ning Bao , Aidan Chatwin-Davies