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We apply the universal method developed in \cite{Jiang:2025jnk} to compute the entanglement entropy between two tangent balls in CFT$_D$. When taking the radius of one ball to infinity, it gives the entanglement entropy between a ball and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-12-09 Jiankun Li , Li Song

Certain duality of relative entropy can fail for chiral conformal net with nontrivial representations. In this paper we quantify such statement by defining a quantity which measures the failure of such duality, and identify this quantity…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-01-15 Feng Xu

Given two pairs of quantum states, a fundamental question in the resource theory of asymmetric distinguishability is to determine whether there exists a quantum channel converting one pair to the other. In this work, we reframe this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-09-30 Soorya Rethinasamy , Mark M. Wilde

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

The relative entropy of entanglement $E_R$ is defined as the distance of a multi-partite quantum state from the set of separable states as measured by the quantum relative entropy. We show that this optimisation is always achieved, i.e. any…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-10-27 Ludovico Lami , Maksim E. Shirokov

We discuss how, in a Universe restricted to the causal region connected to the observer, General Relativity implies the quantum nature of physical phenomena and directly leads to a string theory scenario, whose dynamics is ruled by a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-02-09 Andrea Gregori

We consider the situation when a globally defined four-dimensional field system is separated on two entangled sub-systems by a dynamical (random) two-dimensional surface. The reduced density matrix averaged over ensemble of random surfaces…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-03 Sergey N. Solodukhin

The vacuum entanglement entropy in quantum field theory provides nonperturbative information about renormalization group flows. Most studies so far have focused on the universal terms, related to the Weyl anomaly in even space-time…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-01-24 Lucas Daguerre , Matias Ginzburg , Gonzalo Torroba

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

In the context of the AdS/CFT correspondence, an explicit relation between the physical degrees of freedom of 2+1d gravity and the stress tensor of 1+1d conformal field theory is exhibited. Gravity encodes thermodynamic state variables of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Emil J. Martinec

We use strong sub-additivity of entanglement entropy, Lorentz invariance, and the Markov property of the vacuum state of a conformal field theory to give a new proof of the irreversibility of the renormalization group in d=4 space-time…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-07-05 Horacio Casini , Eduardo Teste , Gonzalo Torroba

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 entanglement entropies of simply connected surfaces in field theories dual to Lovelock gravities. We consider Gauss-Bonnet and cubic Lovelock gravities in detail. In the conformal case the logarithmic terms in the entanglement…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-12-13 Jan de Boer , Manuela Kulaxizi , Andrei Parnachev

According to the flat/CCFT correspondence, Carrollian conformal field theories (CCFT) in d dimensions are dual to asymptotically flat spacetimes in d+1 dimensions. In this paper, starting from the holographic interpretation of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-02-23 Reza Fareghbal , Abolfazl Hassani Majoulan

A conformal field theory (CFT) in dimension $d\geq 3$ coupled to a planar, two-dimensional, conformal defect is characterized in part by a "central charge" $b$ that multiplies the Euler density in the defect's Weyl anomaly. For defect…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-03-09 Kristan Jensen , Andy O'Bannon

We study the time evolution of Renyi entanglement entropy for locally excited states in two dimensional large central charge CFTs. It generically shows a logarithmical growth and we compute the coefficient of $\log t$ term. Our analysis…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-03-14 Yuya Kusuki , Tadashi Takayanagi

We present two theorems demonstrating non-perturbatively the decrease under relevant renormalization group (RG) flow of two quantities, $c_{\text{eff}}$ and $g_{\text{eff}}$ characterizing, respectively, the universal information content of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-10-20 Rushikesh A. Patil , Andreas W. W. Ludwig

We introduce an axiomatic approach to entropies and relative entropies that relies only on minimal information-theoretic axioms, namely monotonicity under mixing and data-processing as well as additivity for product distributions. We find…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-09-22 Gilad Gour , Marco Tomamichel

We explore entanglement negativity, a measure of the distillable entanglement contained in a quantum state, in relativistic field theories in various dimensions. We first give a general overview of negativity and its properties and then…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-22 Mukund Rangamani , Massimiliano Rota

The calculation of entanglement entropy S of quantum fields in spacetimes with horizon shows that, quite generically, S (a) is proportional to the area A of the horizon and (b) is divergent. I argue that this divergence, which arises even…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-12-24 T. Padmanabhan