English
Related papers

Related papers: Conformal Thermal Tensor Network and Universal Ent…

200 papers

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 present a numerical study of a quantum phase transition from a spin-polarized to a topologically ordered phase in a system of spin-1/2 particles on a torus. We demonstrate that this non-symmetry-breaking topological quantum phase…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-06-07 A. Hamma , W. Zhang , S. Haas , D. A. Lidar

Quantum phase transitions occur at zero temperature and involve the appearance of long-range correlations. These correlations are not due to thermal fluctuations but to the intricate structure of a strongly entangled ground state of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 G. Vidal , J. I. Latorre , E. Rico , A. Kitaev

We investigate the equilibrium partition function of non-relativistic conformal field theories in harmonic quantization. We first analyze the hydrodynamic regime and show that, at leading order, the partition function exhibits a universal…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-03-11 Eunwoo Lee

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

We study holographic pseudoentropy for subregions in non-unitary Euclidean conformal field theories (CFTs) within the framework of the de Sitter/conformal field theory (dS/CFT) correspondence. Pseudoentropy, defined as the von Neumann…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-28 Giorgos Anastasiou , Ignacio J. Araya , Avijit Das , Javier Moreno

Conformal Field Theories (CFTs) are special classes of quantum field theories that find applications ranging from critical phenomena to theories of quantum gravity via holography. Understanding thermal effects in CFTs is crucial:…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-08-05 Alessio Miscioscia

We consider entanglement through permeable interfaces in the c=1 (1+1)-dimensional conformal field theory. We compute the partition functions with the interfaces inserted. By the replica trick, the entanglement entropy is obtained…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-12-18 Kazuhiro Sakai , Yuji Satoh

We introduce a many-body topological invariant, called the topological disorder parameter (TDP), to characterize gapped quantum phases with global internal symmetry in (2+1)d. TDP is defined as the constant correction that appears in the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-09-15 Bin-Bin Chen , Hong-Hao Tu , Zi Yang Meng , Meng Cheng

I discuss the von Neumann entanglement entropy in two-dimensional quantum Lifshitz criical point, namely in Rokhsar-Kivelson type critical wavefunctions. I follow the approach proposed by B. Hsu et al. [Phys. Rev. B 79, 115421 (2009)], but…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-07-23 Masaki Oshikawa

In this paper, We conducted an in-depth investigation into the thermodynamic topology of Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet black holes within the framework of Conformal Field Theory (CFT), considering the implications of non-extensive entropy…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-04-30 Mohammad Ali S. Afshar , Mohammad Reza Alipour , Saeed Noori Gashti , Jafar Sadeghi

Conformal field theory (CFT) has been extremely successful in describing large-scale universal effects in one-dimensional (1D) systems at quantum critical points. Unfortunately, its applicability in condensed matter physics has been limited…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-02-15 Jérôme Dubail , Jean-Marie Stéphan , Jacopo Viti , Pasquale Calabrese

A pure quantum state can fully describe thermal equilibrium as long as one focuses on local observables. Thermodynamic entropy can also be recovered as the entanglement entropy of small subsystems. When the size of the subsystem increases,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-05-31 Yuya O. Nakagawa , Masataka Watanabe , Hiroyuki Fujita , Sho Sugiura

The R\'enyi entanglement entropy in quantum many-body systems can be viewed as the difference in free energy between partition functions with different trace topologies. We introduce an external field $\lambda$ that controls the partition…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-03-20 Jonathan D'Emidio

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

Numerical annealing and renormalization group have conceived various successful approaches to study the thermodynamics of strongly-correlated systems where perturbation or expansion theories fail to work. As the process of lowering the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-05-02 Ding-Zu Wang , Guo-Feng Zhang , Maciej Lewenstein , Shi-Ju Ran

Phase transitions are one of the most interesting natural phenomena. For finite systems, one of the concerns in the topic is how to classify a specific transition as being of first, second, or even of a higher order, according to the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-10-18 J. C. S. Rocha , B. V. Costa

The thermodynamics of general relativistic systems with boundary, obeying a Hamiltonian constraint in the bulk, is argued to be determined solely by the boundary quantum dynamics, and hence by the area spectrum. Assuming, for large area of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Ashok Chatterjee , Parthasarathi Majumdar

The entanglement entropy (EE) of quantum systems is often used as a test of low-energy descriptions by conformal field theory (CFT). Here we point out that this is not a reliable indicator, as the EE often shows the same behavior even when…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-08-02 Pranay Patil , Ying Tang , Emanuel Katz , Anders W. Sandvik

In analogy to the first law of thermodynamics, the increase in entanglement entropy $\delta S$ of a conformal field theory (CFT) is proportional to the increase in energy, $\delta E$, of the subsystem divided by an effective entanglement…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-07-13 G. C. Levine , B. Caravan