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We present random quantum circuit models for non-unitary quantum dynamics of free fermions in one spatial dimension. Numerical simulations reveal that the dynamics tends towards steady states with logarithmic violations of the entanglement…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-07-08 Xiao Chen , Yaodong Li , Matthew P. A. Fisher , Andrew Lucas

We consider entanglement entropy of a cap-like region for a conformal field theory living on a sphere times a circle in d space-time dimensions. Assuming that the finite size of the system introduces a unique ground state with a nonzero…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-22 Christopher P. Herzog

We demonstrate that the entropy of entanglement and the distillable entanglement of regions with respect to the rest of a general harmonic lattice system in the ground or a thermal state scale at most as the boundary area of the region.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 M. Cramer , J. Eisert , M. B. Plenio , J. Dreissig

We study entanglement properties of systems with spontaneously broken continuous symmetry. We find that in addition to the expected area law behavior, the entanglement entropy contains a subleading contribution which diverges…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-01-09 Max A. Metlitski , Tarun Grover

We study the entanglement entropy of Hamiltonian SU(2) lattice gauge theory in $2+1$ dimensions on linear plaquette chains and show that the entanglement entropies of both ground and excited states follow Page curves. The transition of the…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2024-08-29 Lukas Ebner , Andreas Schäfer , Clemens Seidl , Berndt Müller , Xiaojun Yao

The entanglement entropy of the ground state of a quantum lattice model with local interactions usually satisfies an area law. However, in 1D systems some violations may appear in inhomogeneous systems or in random systems. In our…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-05-08 Giovanni Ramírez

Many quantum field theories in one, two and four dimensions possess remarkable limits in which the instantons are present, the anti-instantons are absent, and the perturbative corrections are reduced to one-loop. We analyze the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 E. Frenkel , A. Losev , N. Nekrasov

This paper deals with the asymptotic behaviour of a widely used correlation characteristic in large quantum systems. The correlations are known as quantum entanglement, the characteristic is called entanglement entropy, and the system is an…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-03-12 Leonid Pastur , Mira Shamis

This is a brief summary of our studies of quantum field theories in a special limit in which the instantons are present, the anti-instantons are absent, and the perturbative corrections are reduced to one-loop. We analyze the corresponding…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 E. Frenkel , A. Losev , N. Nekrasov

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

In quantum field theory, entanglement entropy under spatial bipartitioning serves as a powerful information-theoretic probe of quantum correlations. In this work, we present the first comprehensive numerical study of the dynamical evolution…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-01-22 S. Mahesh Chandran , Karthik Rajeev

We investigate entanglement entropy in a scalar field theory on the fuzzy sphere. The theory is realized by a matrix model. In our previous study, we confirmed that entanglement entropy in the free case is proportional to the square of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-12-06 Mariko Suzuki , Asato Tsuchiya

We compute the von Neumann and generalized R\'{e}nyi entanglement entropies in the ground-state of the spin-1/2 antiferromagnetic Heisenberg model on the square lattice using the modified spin-wave theory for finite lattices. The addition…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2011-07-06 H. Francis Song , Nicolas Laflorencie , Stephan Rachel , Karyn Le Hur

We extend the entanglement entropy calculation performed in the seminal paper by Srednicki for free real massive scalar field theories in 1+1, 2+1 and 3+1 dimensions. We show that the inverse of the scalar field mass can be used as an…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-04-10 Dimitrios Katsinis , Georgios Pastras

We study the scaling properties of the ground-state entanglement between finite subsystems of infinite two-dimensional free lattice models, as measured by the logarithmic negativity. For adjacent regions with a common boundary, we observe…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-04-01 Viktor Eisler , Zoltán Zimborás

We study the entanglement entropy in lattice field theory using a simulation algorithm based on Jarzynski's theorem. We focus on the entropic c-function for the Ising model in two and in three dimensions: after validating our algorithm…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-06-21 Andrea Bulgarelli , Marco Panero

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 study the structure of entanglement in a supersymmetric lattice model of fermions on certain types of decorated graphs with quenched disorder. In particular, we construct models with controllable ground state degeneracy protected by…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-12-04 Liza Huijse , Brian Swingle

We investigate the effect of non-locality on entanglement entropy in anti-de Sitter space-time. We compute entanglement entropy of a nonlocal field theory in anti-de Sitter space-time and find several interesting features. We find that area…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-07-03 Gaurav Narain , Nirmalya Kajuri

It is well-known that entanglement entropy in field theory at its ground state is dominated by an area law term, presenting a similarity to the entropy of black holes. It is interesting to investigate whether this similarity can be extended…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-06-14 Dimitrios Katsinis , Georgios Pastras