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We consider a fermion gas on a star graph modeling a quantum wire junction and derive the entanglement entropy of one edge with respect to the rest of the junction. The gas is free in the bulk of the graph, the interaction being localized…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-02-28 Pasquale Calabrese , Mihail Mintchev , Ettore Vicari

In this paper we calculate the entanglement entropy of two coupled gapless systems in general spatial dimension d. The gapless systems can be either conformal field theories (CFT), or Fermi liquids. We assume the two systems are coupled…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-05-27 Cenke Xu

We study the entanglement entropy of random partitions in one- and two-dimensional critical fermionic systems. In an infinite system we consider a finite, connected (hypercubic) domain of linear extent $L$, the points of which with…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2022-02-18 Gergö Roósz , István A. Kovács , Ferenc Iglói

We investigate how entanglement spreads in time-dependent states of a 1+1 dimensional conformal field theory (CFT). The results depend qualitatively on the value of the central charge. In rational CFTs, which have central charge below a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-10-07 Curtis T. Asplund , Alice Bernamonti , Federico Galli , Thomas Hartman

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

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 consider the symmetry resolution of relative entropies in the 1+1 dimensional free massless compact boson conformal field theory (CFT) which presents an internal $U(1)$ symmetry. We calculate various symmetry resolved R\'enyi relative…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-07-15 Hui-Huang Chen

In quantum field theories defined on a spacetime with boundaries, the entanglement entropy exhibits subleading, boundary-induced corrections to the ubiquitous area law. At critical points described by conformal field theories (CFTs), and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-05-07 Clement Berthiere

A general geometrical structure of the entanglement entropy for spatial partition of a relativistic QFT system is established by using methods of the effective gravity action and the spectral geometry. A special attention is payed to the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Dmitri V. Fursaev

We study the contribution to the entanglement entropy of (2+1)-dimensional conformal field theories coming from a sharp corner in the entangling surface. This contribution is encoded in a function $a(\theta)$ of the corner opening angle,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-07-13 Pablo Bueno , Robert C. Myers , William Witczak-Krempa

We study entanglement entropy of boundary states in a free bosonic conformal field theory. A boundary state can be thought of as composed of a particular combination of left and right-moving modes of the two-dimensional conformal field…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-22 Leopoldo A. Pando Zayas , Norma Quiroz

In our two preceding papers we studied bipartite composite boson (or quasiboson) systems through their realization in terms of deformed oscillators. Therein, the entanglement characteristics such as the entanglement entropy and purity were…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-04-03 A. M. Gavrilik , Yu. A. Mishchenko

In this paper, we consider the R\'enyi entanglement asymmetry of excited states in the 1+1 dimensional free compact boson conformal field theory (CFT) at equilibrium. We obtain a universal CFT expression written by correlation functions for…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-12-19 Miao Chen , Hui-Huang Chen

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

For holographic CFT states near the vacuum, entanglement entropies for spatial subsystems can be expressed perturbatively as an expansion in the one-point functions of local operators dual to light bulk fields. Using the connection between…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-07-20 Matthew J. S. Beach , Jaehoon Lee , Charles Rabideau , Mark Van Raamsdonk

We compute the holographic entanglement entropy of a thermalized CFT on a time-dependent background in four dimensions. We consider a slab configuration extending beyond the cosmological horizon of a Friedmann-Lemaitre-Robertson-Walker…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-07-27 Vangelis Giantsos , Nikolaos Tetradis

The ground-state entanglement of a single particle of the N-harmonium system (i.e., a completely-integrable model of $N$ particles where both the confinement and the two-particle interaction are harmonic) is shown to be analytically…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-09-30 C. L. Benavides-Riveros , I. V. Toranzo , J. S. Dehesa

In this paper we discuss behaviors of entanglement entropy between two interacting CFTs and its holographic interpretation using the AdS/CFT correspondence. We explicitly perform analytical calculations of entanglement entropy between two…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-19 Ali Mollabashi , Noburo Shiba , Tadashi Takayanagi

{In 1+1 dimensional conformal field theory with a boundary the boundary contribution to the entanglement entropy is determined by a single number $g$ effectively counting the boundary degrees of freedom. In contrast, in 1+1 dimensional…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-04-02 Evangelos Afxonidis , Andreas Karch , Chitraang Murdia

We locate the relevant degrees of freedom for the entanglement entropy on some 2+1 fuzzy models. It is found that the entropy is stored in the near boundary degrees of freedom. We give a simple analytical derivation for the area law using…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-18 Djamel Dou