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We promote use of the geometric entropy formula derived by Holzhey et. al. from conformal field theory, $S_\ell\sim ({c}/{3}) \log(\sin{\pi\ell}/{N})$, to identify critical regions in zero temperature 1D quantum systems. The method is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 S. O. Skrøvseth , K. Olaussen

In one dimension very general results from conformal field theory and exact calculations for certain quantum spin systems have established universal scaling properties of the entanglement entropy between two parts of a critical system.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-05-29 H. Francis Song , Stephan Rachel , Karyn Le Hur

We investigate the entanglement properties of the Quantum Six-Vertex Model on a cylinder, focusing on the Shannon-Renyi entropy in the limit of Renyi order $n = \infty$. This entropy, calculated from the ground state amplitudes of the…

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We investigate the interplay between unitary and non-unitary driven many-body dynamics in (1+1)-dimensional quantum critical systems described by conformal field theory (CFT). By formulating a coherent state approach, we demonstrate that…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-09-29 Bastien Lapierre , Pietro Pelliconi , Shinsei Ryu , Julian Sonner

We consider CFT states defined by adding nonlocal multi-trace sources to the Euclidean path integral defining the vacuum state. For holographic theories, we argue that these states correspond to states in the gravitational theory with a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-06-07 Felix M. Haehl , Eric Mintun , Jason Pollack , Antony J. Speranza , Mark Van Raamsdonk

Entanglement is a special feature of the quantum world that reflects the existence of subtle, often non-local, correlations between local degrees of freedom. In topological theories such non-local correlations can be given a very intuitive…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-01-31 D. Melnikov , A. Mironov , S. Mironov , A. Morozov , An. Morozov

We review the conformal field theory approach to entanglement entropy. We show how to apply these methods to the calculation of the entanglement entropy of a single interval, and the generalization to different situations such as finite…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-12-08 Pasquale Calabrese , John Cardy

Bipartite entanglement entropy of a segment with the length $l$ in $1+1$ dimensional conformal field theories (CFT) follows the formula $S=\frac{c}{3}\ln l+\gamma$, where $c$ is the central charge of the CFT and $\gamma$ is a cut-off…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-12-20 M. A. Rajabpour

For the purpose of clarifying a new approach to understanding quantum entanglement using thermofield dynamics (TFD), entanglement entropies of non-equilibrium finite-spin systems are examined for both traditional and extended cases. The…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-02-18 Koichi Nakagawa

The R\'enyi entanglement entropy in quantum many-body systems can be viewed as the difference in free energy between partition functions with different trace topologies. We introduce an external field $\lambda$ that controls the partition…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-03-20 Jonathan D'Emidio

Entanglement is one of the most intriguing features of quantum theory and a main resource in quantum information science. Ground states of quantum many-body systems with local interactions typically obey an "area law" meaning the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-11-12 Fumihiko Sugino , Vladimir Korepin

The entanglement asymmetry is a novel quantity that, using entanglement methods, measures how much a symmetry is broken in a part of an extended quantum system. So far it has only been used to characterise the breaking of continuous Abelian…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-02-08 Florent Ferro , Filiberto Ares , Pasquale Calabrese

The quantum renormalization group method is applied to study the quantum criticality and entanglement entropy of the ground state of the Ising chain in the presence of antisymmetric anisotropic couplings and alternating exchange…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-08-09 Xiang Hao

We investigate the entanglement spectrum near criticality in finite quantum spin chains. Using finite size scaling we show that when approaching a quantum phase transition, the Schmidt gap, i.e., the difference between the two largest…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-12-10 G. De Chiara , L. Lepori , M. Lewenstein , A. Sanpera

We present a general theory of the corrections to the asymptotic behaviour of the Renyi entropies which measure the entanglement of an interval A of length L with the rest of an infinite one-dimensional system, in the case when this is…

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

The study of entanglement in the symmetry sectors of a theory has recently attracted a lot of attention since it provides better understanding of some aspects of quantum many-body systems. In this paper, we extend this analysis to the case…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-06-01 Michele Fossati , Filiberto Ares , Pasquale Calabrese

In this work, motivated by the sine-square deformation (SSD) for (1+1)-dimensional quantum critical systems, we study the non-equilibrium quantum dynamics of a conformal field theory (CFT) with SSD, which was recently proposed to have…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-06-13 Xueda Wen , Jie-Qiang Wu

We study entanglement entropy for parity-violating (time-reversal breaking) quantum field theories on $\mathbb{R}^{1,2}$ in the presence of a domain wall between two distinct parity-odd phases. The domain wall hosts a 1+1-dimensional…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-04-06 Taylor L. Hughes , Robert G. Leigh , Onkar Parrikar , Srinidhi T. Ramamurthy

We present a detailed discussion of entanglement entropy in (1+1)-dimensional Warped Conformal Field Theories (WCFTs). We implement the Rindler method to evaluate entanglement and Renyi entropies for a single interval and along the way we…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-01-19 Alejandra Castro , Diego M. Hofman , Nabil Iqbal

We present a study of the scaling behavior of the R\'{e}nyi entanglement entropy (REE) in SU($N$) spin chain Hamiltonians, in which all the spins transform under the fundamental representation. These SU($N$) spin chains are known to be…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-08-12 Jonathan D'Emidio , Matthew S. Block , Ribhu K. Kaul