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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

We establish the emergence of a conformal field theory (CFT) in a (1+1)-dimensional hybrid quantum circuit right at the measurement-driven entanglement transition by revealing space-time conformal covariance of entanglement entropies and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-09-15 Yaodong Li , Xiao Chen , Andreas W. W. Ludwig , Matthew P. A. Fisher

We explicitly reconstruct the metric of a gravity dual to field theories using known entanglement entropies using the Ryu-Takayanagi formula. We use for examples CFT's in $d = 1$, 2 and 3 as well as CFT on a circle of length $L$ and a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-11-21 Michael Spillane

The entanglement entropy in one dimensional critical systems with boundaries has been associated with the noninteger ground state degeneracy. This quantity, being a characteristic of boundary fixed points, decreases under renormalization…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-08-30 Eyal Cornfeld , Eran Sela

In local quantum field theory, the entanglement entropy of a region is divergent due to the arbitrary short-wavelength correlations near the boundary of the region. Quantum gravitational fluctuations are expected to cut off the entropy of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-10-13 Usman Naseer

We study a notion of relative entropy for certain hypersurfaces in hyperbolic space. We relate this quantity to the renormalized area introduced by Graham-Witten[RW99]. We also obtain a monotonicity formula for relative entropy applied to…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-06-28 Junfu Yao

We give a review, in the style of an essay, of the author's 1998 matter-gravity entanglement hypothesis which, unlike the standard approach to entropy based on coarse-graining, offers a definition for the entropy of a closed system as a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-02-26 Bernard S. Kay

Recent work has revealed that entanglement entropy growth in conformal field theories (CFTs) can be suppressed when a local operator quench interacts with a mixed-state excitation, providing a dual interpretation in terms of black hole…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-21 Davood Momeni

The consistency relations in large scale structure relate the lower-order correlation functions with their higher-order counterparts. They are direct outcome of the underlying symmetries of a dynamical system and can be tested using data…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-06-23 Dipak Munshi , Donough Regan

The degrees of freedom of any interacting quantum field theory are entangled in momentum space. Thus, in the vacuum state, the infrared degrees of freedom are described by a density matrix with an entanglement entropy. We derive a relation…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-05-30 Vijay Balasubramanian , Michael B. McDermott , Mark Van Raamsdonk

We define a new divergence of von Neumann algebras using a variational expression that is similar in nature to Kosaki's formula for the relative entropy. Our divergence satisfies the usual desirable properties, upper bounds the sandwiched…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-11-17 Stefan Hollands

In this work, we propose an information theoretic order parameter able to characterize the presence and breaking of categorical symmetries in (1 + 1)-d rational conformal field theories (RCFT). Specifically, we compute the quantum relative…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-12-10 Javier Molina-Vilaplana , Pablo Saura-Bastida , Germán Sierra

We consider 3d N>= 2 superconformal field theories on a branched covering of a three-sphere. The Renyi entropy of a CFT is given by the partition function on this space, but conical singularities break the supersymmetry preserved in the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-16 Tatsuma Nishioka , Itamar Yaakov

The entanglement entropy of a pure quantum state of a bipartite system is defined as the von Neumann entropy of the reduced density matrix obtained by tracing over one of the two parts. Critical ground states of local Hamiltonians in one…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-09-08 Eduardo Fradkin

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

We study the relation of relative topological entropy and relative mean dimension between a factor map and its induced factor map for amenable group actions. On the one hand, we prove that a factor map has zero relative topological entropy…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-11-25 Kairan Liu , Yixiao Qiao

We show that in any relativistic system, entanglement entropy obeys a speed limit set by the entanglement in thermal equilibrium. The bound is derived from inequalities on relative entropy with respect to a thermal reference state. Thus the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-12-10 Thomas Hartman , Nima Afkhami-Jeddi

Inspired by the holographic computation of large interval entanglement entropy of two dimensional conformal field theory at high temperature, it was proposed that the thermal entropy is related to the entanglement entropy as…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-01 Bin Chen , Jie-qiang Wu

We study how the universal contribution to entanglement entropy in a conformal field theory depends on the entangling region. We show that for a deformed sphere the variation of the universal contribution is quadratic in the deformation…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-02-17 Andrea Allais , Márk Mezei

We introduce and study generalized R\'enyi entropies defined through the traces of products of ${\rm Tr}_B (|\Psi_i\rangle\langle \Psi_j|)$ where $|\Psi_i\rangle$ are eigenstates of a two-dimensional conformal field theory (CFT). When…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-09-21 Sara Murciano , Pasquale Calabrese , Robert M. Konik