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The thermodynamics and the entanglement properties of two-dimensional conformal field theories ($2$d CFTs) on curved backgrounds are studied. By means of conformal mapping we study the equivalent system on flat space governed by the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-06-11 Akihiro Miyata , Masahiro Nozaki , Kotaro Tamaoka , Masataka Watanabe

We calculate the shape dependence of entanglement entropy in (5+1)-dimensional conformal field theory in terms of the extrinsic curvature of the entangling surface, the opening angles of possible conical singularities, and the conformal…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-12-12 Benjamin R. Safdi

Entanglement is resolved in conformal field theory (CFT) with respect to conformal families to all orders in the UV cutoff. To leading order, symmetry-resolved entanglement is connected to the quantum dimension of a conformal family, while…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-10-10 Christian Northe

Two-dimensional conformal field theories with a large central charge and a small number of low-dimension operators are studied using the conformal block expansion. A universal formula is derived for the Renyi entropies of N disjoint…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-03-29 Thomas Hartman

We consider the relative entropy between vacuum states of two different theories: a conformal field theory (CFT), and the CFT perturbed by a relevant operator. By restricting both states to the null Cauchy surface in the causal domain of a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-04-05 Horacio Casini , Eduardo Teste , Gonzalo Torroba

We use the conformal invariance and the holographic correspondence to fully specify the dependence of entanglement entropy on the extrinsic geometry of the 2d surface $\Sigma$ that separates two subsystems of quantum strongly coupled…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Sergey N. Solodukhin

We investigate the behavior of the entanglement entropy of a confining gauge theory near cosmological singularities using gauge/gravity duality. As expected, the coefficients of the UV divergent terms are given by simple geometric…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-07-26 Netta Engelhardt , Gary T. Horowitz

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

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 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

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

Inspired by the holographic computation of large interval entanglement entropy of two dimensional conformal field theory at high temperature, it was proposed that the thermal entropy is related to the entanglement entropy as…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-01 Bin Chen , Jie-qiang Wu

We advance the study of flat space holography by computing the entanglement entropy of highly excited states in two-dimensional Carrollian/Galilean Conformal Field Theories (C/G CFTs). Our approach is centered on a novel, physically…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-19 Peng-Xiang Hao , Shunta Takahashi

In this paper, we study the entanglement entropy of a single interval on a cylinder in two-dimensional $T\overline{T}$-deformed conformal field theory. For such case, the (R\'enyi) entanglement entropy takes a universal form in a CFT. We…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-11-07 Bin Chen , Lin Chen , Peng-xiang Hao

We consider possible conformal field theory (CFT) descriptions of the various inertial ranges that exist in $2d$ duality invariant Magnetohydrodynamics. Such models arise as effective theories of dyonic plasmas in 3 dimensions in which all…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-30 O. Coceal , W. A. Sabra , S. Thomas

We consider single interval R\'enyi and entanglement entropies for a two dimensional conformal field theory on a circle at nonzero temperature. Assuming that the finite size of the system introduces a unique ground state with a nonzero mass…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-05-07 John Cardy , Christopher P. Herzog

We study entanglement entropy of excited states in two dimensional conformal field theories (CFTs). Especially we consider excited states obtained by acting primary operators on a vacuum. We show that under its time evolution, entanglement…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-08-20 Song He , Tokiro Numasawa , Tadashi Takayanagi , Kento Watanabe

We study the structure of divergences and universal terms of the entanglement and R\'enyi entropies for singular regions. First, we show that for $(3+1)$-dimensional free conformal field theories (CFTs), entangling regions emanating from…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-09-04 Pablo Bueno , Horacio Casini , William Witczak-Krempa

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 entanglement entropies of simply connected surfaces in field theories dual to Lovelock gravities. We consider Gauss-Bonnet and cubic Lovelock gravities in detail. In the conformal case the logarithmic terms in the entanglement…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-12-13 Jan de Boer , Manuela Kulaxizi , Andrei Parnachev