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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

In this paper we study one-dimensional conformal field theory at finite temperature dual to the two-dimensional anti-de Sitter spacetime in the Rindler coordinates. We show that conformal symmetry for thermal two-point functions manifests…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-11-04 Satoshi Ohya

We study the behavior of the entanglement entropy in $(2+1)$--dimensional strongly coupled theories via the AdS/CFT correspondence. We consider theories at a finite charge density with a magnetic field, with their holographic dual being…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-10-06 Tameem Albash , Clifford V. Johnson , Scott MacDonald

We consider the situation when a globally defined four-dimensional field system is separated on two entangled sub-systems by a dynamical (random) two-dimensional surface. The reduced density matrix averaged over ensemble of random surfaces…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-03 Sergey N. Solodukhin

In this paper, we study the entanglement contour in a general excited state in the holographic 2d CFT using the partial entanglement entropy proposal. We show how thermodynamics fixes the entanglement contour relating it to the first law of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-05-28 Dmitry S. Ageev

We explore the structures of light cone and Regge limit singularities of $n$-point Virasoro conformal blocks in $c>1$ two-dimensional conformal field theories with no chiral primaries, using fusion matrix approach. These CFTs include not…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-09-04 Yuya Kusuki , Masamichi Miyaji

We consider sets of states in conformal quantum mechanics associated to generators of time evolution whose orbits cover different regions of the time domain. States labelled by a continuous global time variable define the two-point…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-06-22 Michele Arzano , Alessandra D'Alise , Domenico Frattulillo

Entanglement entropy provides a powerful characterization of two-dimensional gapped topological phases of quantum matter, intimately tied to their description by topological quantum field theories (TQFTs). Fracton topological orders are…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-03-08 Han Ma , A. T. Schmitz , S. A. Parameswaran , Michael Hermele , Rahul M. Nandkishore

We consider the time evolution of mixed state correlation measures in two-dimensional conformal field theories, such as logarithmic negativity, odd entropy, and reflected entropy, after quantum quenches of various kinds. These correlation…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-04-20 Jonah Kudler-Flam , Yuya Kusuki , Shinsei Ryu

We provide numerical evidence that the low-lying part of the entanglement spectrum of a real-space block (i.e. a single interval) of a one-dimensional quantum many body system at a conformal critical point corresponds to the energy spectrum…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-03-05 Andreas M. Läuchli

Relative entropy is a non-negative quantity and offers a powerful means of achieving a unified understanding of fundamental properties in physics, including the second law of thermodynamics and positivity bounds on effective field theories…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-04-29 Daiki Ueda , Kazuhiro Tatsumi

Quantifying entanglement properties of mixed states in quantum field theory via entanglement of purification and reflected entropy is a new and challenging subject. In this work, we study both quantities for two spherical subregions far…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-10-04 Hugo A. Camargo , Lucas Hackl , Michal P. Heller , Alexander Jahn , Bennet Windt

We study the symmetry resolution of the entanglement entropy of an interval in two-dimensional conformal field theories (CFTs), by relating the bipartition to the geometry of an annulus with conformal boundary conditions. In the presence of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-10-21 Giuseppe Di Giulio , René Meyer , Christian Northe , Henri Scheppach , Suting Zhao

In this work, we investigate the entanglement structure in a $\textrm{T}\bar{\textrm{T}}$-deformed holographic CFT$_2$ with a conserved angular momentum. We utilize conformal perturbation theory to compute the leading order correction to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-10-10 Debarshi Basu , Saikat Biswas

We develop a covariant formalism to investigate the mixed state entanglement structure of time-dependent boosted subsystems in $\textrm{T}\bar{\textrm{T}}$ deformed CFT$_2$s through the reflected entropy. To this end we utilize the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-02-13 Debarshi Basu , Vinayak Raj

We compute the entanglement entropy for some quantum field theories on de Sitter space. We consider a superhorizon size spherical surface that divides the spatial slice into two regions, with the field theory in the standard vacuum state.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-11 Juan Maldacena , Guilherme L. Pimentel

We study nonchiral wave functions for systems with continuous spins obtained from the conformal field theory (CFT) of a free, massless boson. In contrast to the case of discrete spins, these can be treated as bosonic Gaussian states, which…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-10-01 Benedikt Herwerth , Germán Sierra , J. Ignacio Cirac , Anne E. B. Nielsen

We study whether the relations between the Weyl anomaly, entanglement entropy (EE), and thermal entropy of a two-dimensional (2D) conformal field theory (CFT) extend to 2D boundaries of 3D CFTs, or 2D defects of $D \geq 3$ CFTs. The Weyl…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-07-15 Kristan Jensen , Andy O'Bannon , Brandon Robinson , Ronnie Rodgers

We study the ratio of the entropy to the total energy in conformal field theories at finite temperature. For the free field realizations of N=4 super Yang-Mills theory in D=4 and the (2,0) tensor multiplet in D=6, the ratio is bounded from…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 George Siopsis

We derive differential equations for the flow of entanglement entropy as a function of the metric and the couplings of the theory. The variation of the universal part of entanglement entropy under a local Weyl transformation is related to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-12-31 Vladimir Rosenhaus , Michael Smolkin