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We consider two measures of entanglement, the logarithmic negativity and the entanglement entropy, between regions of space in excited states of many-body systems formed by a finite number of particle excitations. In parts I and II of the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-08-20 Olalla A. Castro-Alvaredo , Cecilia De Fazio , Benjamin Doyon , István M. Szécsényi

We calculate analytically the R\'enyi bipartite entanglement entropy $S_{\alpha}$ of the ground state of $1+1$ dimensional conformal field theories (CFT) after performing a projective measurement in a part of the system. We show that the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-08-03 M. A. Rajabpour

Entropy is a quantity for counting physical degrees of freedom in a system. At a finite temperature, one can use thermal entropy to study thermodynamical properties. At zero temperature, entanglement entropy is expected to provide a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-10-29 Chen-Te Ma

We provide a field-theoretic method to calculate entanglement entropy of CFT in all dimensions. This method works for entangling surfaces of arbitrary shape. The formalism manifests a field-theoretic proof of the Ryu-Takayanagi formula.

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-01-06 Xin Jiang , Haitang Yang

We introduce a systematic framework to calculate the bipartite entanglement entropy of a compact spatial subsystem in a one-dimensional quantum gas which can be mapped into a noninteracting fermion system. We show that when working with a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-28 Pasquale Calabrese , Mihail Mintchev , Ettore Vicari

Entanglement or modular Hamiltonians play a crucial role in the investigation of correlations in quantum field theories. In particular, in 1+1 space-time dimensions, the spectra of entanglement Hamiltonians of conformal field theories…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-08-06 Ananda Roy , Frank Pollmann , Hubert Saleur

The entanglement entropy of an arbitrary spacetime region $A$ in a three-dimensional conformal field theory (CFT) contains a constant universal coefficient, $F(A)$. For general theories, the value of $F(A)$ is minimized when $A$ is a round…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-08-26 Pablo Bueno , Horacio Casini , Oscar Lasso Andino , Javier Moreno

We evaluate the entanglement entropy of a single connected region in excited states of one-dimensional massive free theories with finite numbers of particles, in the limit of large volume and region length. For this purpose, we use…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-10-18 Olalla A. Castro-Alvaredo , Cecilia De Fazio , Benjamin Doyon , István M. Szécsényi

We investigate a separability criterion based on the computable cross-norm (CCNR), and a related quantity called the CCNR negativity. We introduce a reflected version of the CCNR negativity, and discuss its connection with other…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-10-04 Clément Berthiere , Gilles Parez

We consider a conformal field theory in two dimensions in which an external perturbation is placed. We study the energy flux and entanglement entropy for one, two and multiple intervals and give a suggestion relating the two in some cases.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-11-01 Talya Vaknin

We investigate entanglement entropy in $3d$ $\mathcal{N}=2$ superconformal field theories from two different perspectives. We first confirm that the dependence of supersymmetric entanglement entropy (as defined in arXiv:1306.2958) on the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-10-28 Pedro Vicente Marto , Umut Gürsoy , Guim Planella Planas

We study the entanglement properties of non-Hermitian free fermionic models with translation symmetry using the correlation matrix technique. Our results show that the entanglement entropy has a logarithmic correction to the area law in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-09-22 Yi-Bin Guo , Yi-Cong Yu , Rui-Zhen Huang , Li-Ping Yang , Run-Ze Chi , Hai-Jun Liao , Tao Xiang

We enumerate the cases in 2d conformal field theory where the logarithm of the reduced density matrix (the entanglement or modular hamiltonian) may be written as an integral over the energy-momentum tensor times a local weight. These…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-01-19 John Cardy , Erik Tonni

In this note we calculate the holographic entanglement entropy in the presence of a conformal interface for a geometric configuration in which the entangling region ${\cal A}$ lies on one side of the interface. For the supersymmetric Janus…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-01-20 Michael Gutperle , John D. Miller

In this review we first introduce the general methods to calculate the entanglement entropy for free fields, within the Euclidean and the real time formalisms. Then we describe the particular examples which have been worked out explicitly…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-12-08 H. Casini , M. Huerta

We study universal features in the shape dependence of entanglement entropy in the vacuum state of a conformal field theory (CFT) on $\mathbb{R}^{1,d-1}$. We consider the entanglement entropy across a deformed planar or spherical entangling…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-04-22 Thomas Faulkner , Robert G. Leigh , Onkar Parrikar

In this paper we study the properties of two-dimensional CFTs defined by cyclic and symmetric orbifolds of free Dirac fermions, especially by focusing on the partition function and entanglement entropy. Via the bosonization, we construct…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-12-21 Tadashi Takayanagi , Takashi Tsuda

In this note, I revisit the problem of computing the entanglement entropy of a single interval in the ground state of a 2d CFT. I write the leading-order result in three different ways: once by doing the replica trick with the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-10-25 Jennifer Lin

Quantum many-body systems have a rich structure in the presence of boundaries. We study the groundstates of conformal field theories (CFTs) and Lifshitz field theories in the presence of a boundary through the lens of the entanglement…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-09-07 Clément Berthiere , William Witczak-Krempa

Entanglement entropy in local quantum field theories is typically ultraviolet divergent due to short distance effects in the neighbourhood of the entangling region. In the context of gauge/gravity duality, we show that surface terms in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-10-04 Arpan Bhattacharyya , Aninda Sinha