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We provide a derivation of the Ryu-Takayanagi (RT) formula in 3D gravity for generic boundary subregion--including RT surface phase transitions--directly from the dual two-dimensional conformal field theory (CFT). Our approach relies on the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-09-16 Hao Geng , Ling-Yan Hung , Yikun Jiang

In this paper we study the propagation of entanglement entropy after a global instantaneous quench on the CFT boundary of AdS bulk. We consider the Gauss-Bonnet model as a higher curvature gravity model for which we correct the RT(HRT)…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-12-14 Hossein Ghaffarnejad , Emad Yaraie , Mohammad Farsam

Using the volume of the space enclosed by the Ryu-Takayanagi (RT) surface, we study the complexity of the disk-shape subregion (with radius R) in various (2+1)-dimensional gapped systems with gravity dual. These systems include a class of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-09-18 Lin-Peng Du , Shao-Feng Wu , Hua-Bi Zeng

We study the role of the Gauss-Bonnet corrections to the gravity action on the charged AdS black hole in presence of rank 3 antisymmetric Kalb Ramond tensor field strength. Analyzing the branch singularity and the killing horizon, we…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-06-11 Sayantan Choudhury , Soumitra SenGupta

Entanglement entropies are notoriously difficult to compute. Large-N strongly-coupled holographic CFTs are an important exception, where the AdS/CFT dictionary gives the entanglement entropy of a CFT region in terms of the area of an…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-05-30 Sebastian Fischetti , Toby Wiseman

We provide a derivation of holographic entanglement entropy for spherical entangling surfaces. Our construction relies on conformally mapping the boundary CFT to a hyperbolic geometry and observing that the vacuum state is mapped to a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-05-12 Horacio Casini , Marina Huerta , Robert C. Myers

We present a general procedure for constructing tensor networks that accurately reproduce holographic states in conformal field theories (CFTs). Given a state in a large-$N$ CFT with a static, semiclassical gravitational dual, we build a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-12-05 Ning Bao , Geoffrey Penington , Jonathan Sorce , Aron C. Wall

The pseudo entropy is a promising recent generalization of the entanglement entropy to the situations in which both the initial and final state are involved, with the density matrix promoted to the transition matrix. However, in contrast to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-06-02 Zhou Chen

We study the properties of the holographic CFT dual to Gauss-Bonnet gravity in general $D \ge 5$ dimensions. We establish the AdS/CFT dictionary and in particular relate the couplings of the gravitational theory to the universal couplings…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-06-01 Alex Buchel , Jorge Escobedo , Robert C. Myers , Miguel F. Paulos , Aninda Sinha , Michael Smolkin

We present the vacuum of a two-dimensional conformal field theory (CFT$_2$) as a network of Wilson lines in $SL(2,\mathbb{R}) \times SL(2,\mathbb{R})$ Chern-Simons theory, which is conventionally used to study gravity in three-dimensional…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-01-27 Bowen Chen , Bartlomiej Czech , Zi-zhi Wang

In 2006, Ryu and Takayanagi (RT) pointed out that (with a suitable cutoff) the entanglement entropy between two complementary regions of an equal-time surface of a d+1-dimensional conformal field theory on the conformal boundary of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-05-26 Bernard S. Kay

We derive a generalized version of the Ryu-Takayanagi formula for the entanglement entropy in arbitrary diffeomorphism invariant field theories. We use a recent framework which expresses the measurable quantities of a quantum theory as a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-08-21 Artem Averin

We propose an optimization procedure for Euclidean path-integrals that evaluate CFT wave functionals in arbitrary dimensions. The optimization is performed by minimizing certain functional, which can be interpreted as a measure of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-12-06 Pawel Caputa , Nilay Kundu , Masamichi Miyaji , Tadashi Takayanagi , Kento Watanabe

One of the many remarkable properties of conformal field theory in two dimensions is its connection to algebraic geometry. Since every compact Riemann surface is a projective algebraic curve, many constructions of interest in physics (which…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-07-05 Matthew Heydeman , Matilde Marcolli , Ingmar Saberi , Bogdan Stoica

Random tensor networks (RTNs) have proved to be fruitful tools for modelling the AdS/CFT correspondence. Due to their flat entanglement spectra, when discussing a given boundary region $R$ and its complement $\bar R$, standard RTNs are most…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-01-08 Jesse Held , Molly Kaplan , Donald Marolf , Jie-qiang Wu

We propose a renormalization scheme for Entanglement Entropy of 3D CFTs with a 4D asymptotically AdS gravity dual in the context of the gauge/gravity correspondence. The procedure consists in adding the Chern form as a boundary term to the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-05-23 Giorgos Anastasiou , Ignacio J. Araya , Rodrigo Olea

We use the framework of $\textit{fixed-point BCFT tensor networks}$ to present a microscopic CFT derivation of the correspondence between reflected entropy (RE) and entanglement wedge cross section (EW) in AdS$_3$/CFT$_2$, for both…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-02-17 Ning Bao , Jinwei Chu , Yikun Jiang , Jacob March

In this note, we explain how asymptotically globally AdS spacetimes can be given an alternate dual description as entangled states of a pair of hyperbolic space CFTs, which are associated with complementary Rindler wedges of the AdS…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-05 Bartlomiej Czech , Joanna L. Karczmarek , Fernando Nogueira , Mark Van Raamsdonk

According to Ryu and Takayanagi, the entanglement entropy in conformal field theory (CFT) is related through the AdS/CFT correspondence to the area of a minimal surface in the bulk. We study this holographic geometrical method of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-07-18 Pavel Krtous , Andrei Zelnikov

We study quantum corrections to holographic entanglement entropy in AdS$_3$/CFT$_2$; these are given by the bulk entanglement entropy across the Ryu-Takayanagi surface for all fields in the effective gravitational theory. We consider bulk…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-05-13 Alexandre Belin , Nabil Iqbal , Jorrit Kruthoff