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We extend the formula for partition functions of N=2 superconformal gauge theories on S^3 obtained recently by Kapustin, Willett and Yaakov, to incorporate matter fields with arbitrary R-charge assignments. We use the result to check that…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-04-04 Naofumi Hama , Kazuo Hosomichi , Sungjay Lee

The algebraic structures related with integrable structure of superconformal field theory (SCFT) are introduced. The SCFT counterparts of Baxter's Q-operator are constructed. The fusion-like relations for the transfer-matrices in different…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-09-06 Petr P. Kulish , Anton M. Zeitlin

I compute the conformal weights of the twist operators of free scalar fields for charged R\'enyi entropy in both odd and even dimensions. Explicit expressions can be found, in odd dimensions as a function of the chemical potential in the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-12-07 J. S. Dowker

The asymptotic restriction problem for tensors can be reduced to finding all parameters that are normalized, monotone under restrictions, additive under direct sums and multiplicative under tensor products, the simplest of which are the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-02-13 Dávid Bugár , Péter Vrana

I first calculate the charged spherical Renyi entropy by a numerical method that does not require knowledge of any eigenvalue degeneracies, and applies to all odd dimensions. An image method is used to relate the full sphere values to those…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-01-26 J. S. Dowker

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

We propose a closed formula of the universal part of supersymmetric R\'enyi entropy $S_q$ for $(2,0)$ superconformal theories in six-dimensions. We show that $S_q$ across a spherical entangling surface is a cubic polynomial of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-06-13 Yang Zhou

We extend the approach of Casini, Huerta and Myers to a new calculation of the Renyi entropy of a general CFT in d dimensions with a spherical entangling surface, in terms of certain thermal partition functions. We apply this approach to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-11-07 Janet Hung , Robert C. Myers , Michael Smolkin , Alexandre Yale

We investigate 3d $\mathscr{N}=2$ supersymmetric gauge theories on $S^1 \times S^2$ and the corresponding 2d effective field theories arising in the limit of small ratio of radii, $\beta=R_{S^1}/R_{S^2}\to 0$. We evaluate the exact…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-07-31 Antonio Amariti , Jun Nian , Leopoldo A. Pando Zayas , Alessia Segati

We compute thermal corrections to R\'enyi entropies of $d$ dimensional conformal field theories on spheres. Consider the $n$th R\'enyi entropy for a cap of opening angle $2 \theta$ on $S^{d-1}$. From a Boltzmann sum decomposition and the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-07-02 Christopher P. Herzog , Jun Nian

In this work we consider the time evolution of charged Renyi entanglement entropies after exciting the vacuum with local fermionic operators. In order to explore the information contained in charged Renyi entropies, we perform computations…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-05-25 Pawel Caputa , Masahiro Nozaki , Tokiro Numasawa

We study $U(N)$ SYM theories on spaces with orbifold singularities via an equivalent description in terms of gauge theories on smooth manifolds with insertions of Gukov-Witten and twist defects. The combined effect of the defects is to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-26 Roman Mauch , Lorenzo Ruggeri

We advance a correspondence between the topological defect operators in Liouville and Toda conformal field theories - which we construct - and loop operators and domain wall operators in four dimensional N=2 supersymmetric gauge theories on…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-18 Nadav Drukker , Davide Gaiotto , Jaume Gomis

We develop a general theory for computing the Renyi entropy with general multiple disjoint intervals from the swapping operations. Our theory is proposed based on the fact that we have observed the resemblance between the replica trick in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-04-03 Han-Qing Shi , Hai-Qing Zhang

Surface operators are among the most important observables of the 6d $\mathcal{N} = (2,0)$ theory. Here we apply the tools of defect CFT to study local operator insertions into the 1/2-BPS plane. We first relate the 2-point function of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-04-01 Nadav Drukker , Malte Probst , Maxime Trépanier

Replica twist defects are of codimension two and enter in quantum information when finding the R\'enyi entropy. In particular, they generate n replicas of the bulk conformal field theory. We study the monodromy of such defect and learn how…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-07-26 Alexander Söderberg Rousu

The sandwiched R\'enyi divergences of two finite-dimensional density operators quantify their asymptotic distinguishability in the strong converse domain. This establishes the sandwiched R\'enyi divergences as the operationally relevant…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-12 Milán Mosonyi

We extend and refine recent results on Renyi entropy in two-dimensional conformal field theories at large central charge. To do so, we examine the effects of higher spin symmetry and of allowing unequal left and right central charges, at…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-18 Eric Perlmutter

Renyi entropies S_q are useful measures of quantum entanglement; they can be calculated from traces of the reduced density matrix raised to power q, with q>=0. For (d+1)-dimensional conformal field theories, the Renyi entropies across…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-05-15 Igor R. Klebanov , Silviu S. Pufu , Subir Sachdev , Benjamin R. Safdi

R\'enyi entropy is a one-parameter generalization of Shannon entropy, which has been used in various fields of physics. Despite its wide applicability, the physical interpretations of the R\'enyi entropy are not widely known. In this paper,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-08-29 Misaki Ozawa , Nina Javerzat