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We study the entanglement entropy in 1+1 dimensional conformal field theories in the presence of interfaces from a holographic perspective. Compared with the well-known case of boundary conformal field theories, interfaces allow for several…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-08-22 Andreas Karch , Zhu-Xi Luo , Hao-Yu Sun

Entanglement entropy has proven to be a powerful tool for probing renormalization group (RG) flows in quantum field theories, with c-functions derived from it serving as candidate measures of the effective number of degrees of freedom.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-09-30 Niko Jokela , Jani Kastikainen , Carlos Nunez , José Manuel Penín , Helime Ruotsalainen , Javier G. Subils

We re-examine holographic versions of the c-theorem and entanglement entropy in the context of higher curvature gravity and the AdS/CFT correspondence. We select the gravity theories by tuning the gravitational couplings to eliminate…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-02-22 Robert C. Myers , Aninda Sinha

Entanglement entropy quantifies the amount of uncertainty of a quantum state. For quantum fields in curved space, entanglement entropy of the quantum field theory degrees of freedom is well-defined for a fixed background geometry. In this…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-10-28 Xi Dong , Xiao-Liang Qi , Zhou Shangnan , Zhenbin Yang

We holographically investigate the renormalization group flow in a two-dimensional conformal field theory deformed by a relevant operator. If the relevant operator allows another fixed point, the UV conformal field theory smoothly flows to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-12-05 Chanyong Park , Daeho Ro , Jung Hun Lee

In this note a new method for computing the entanglement entropy of a CFT holographically is explored. It consists of finding a bulk background with a boundary metric that has the conical singularities needed to compute the entanglement…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-12-25 Georgios Michalogiorgakis

Renormalized entanglement entropy can be defined using the replica trick for any choice of renormalization scheme; renormalized entanglement entropy in holographic settings is expressed in terms of renormalized areas of extremal surfaces.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-12-28 Marika Taylor , Linus Too

We study a number of (3+1)- and (2+1)-dimensional defect and boundary conformal field theories holographically dual to supergravity theories. In all cases the defects or boundaries are planar, and the defects are codimension-one. Using…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-11-09 John Estes , Kristan Jensen , Andy O'Bannon , Efstratios Tsatis , Timm Wrase

We study the holographic entanglement entropy in a (d+1)-dimensional boundary quantum field theory at both the zero and finite temperature. The phase diagrams for the holographic entanglement entropy at various temperatures are obtained by…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-11-28 En-Jui Chang , Chia-Jui Chou , Yi Yang

We study entanglement entropy for a class of states in quantum field theory that are entangled superpositions of coherent states with well-separated supports, analogous to Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen or Bell states. We calculate the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-05-28 Curtis T. Asplund

In this article, we review recent progresses on the holographic understandings of the entanglement entropy in the AdS/CFT correspondence. After reviewing the general idea of holographic entanglement entropy, we will explain its applications…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-12-08 Tatsuma Nishioka , Shinsei Ryu , Tadashi Takayanagi

Entanglement entropy is crucial for understanding the link between quantum mechanics and information theory. This thesis investigates how energy fluctuations and acceleration affect entanglement entropy through three key scenarios. First,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-10-28 Felipe Diaz

In this thesis, we study a variety of phenomena in strongly coupled quantum field theories by performing calculations in their gravitational duals. We compute entanglement entropy in a variety of holographic systems, paying particular…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-12-23 Ronnie Rodgers

We study the entanglement entropy in a relativistic quantum field theory for regions which are not included in a single spatial hyperplane. This geometric configuration cannot be treated with the Euclidean time method and the replica trick.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-09-30 David D. Blanco , Horacio Casini

The renormalization of entanglement entropy of quantum field theories is investigated in the simplest setting with a $\lambda \phi^4$ scalar field theory. The 3+1 dimensional spacetime is separated into two regions by an infinitely flat…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-09-19 Jiunn-Wei Chen , Jin-Yi Pang

This paper explores the fundamental relationship between the geometry of entanglement and von Neumann entropy, shedding light on the intricate nature of quantum correlations. We provide a comprehensive overview of entanglement, highlighting…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-03 Ramita Sarkar , Soumik Mahanti , Prasanta K. Panigrahi

The holographic entropy cone characterizes the relations between entanglement entropies for a spatial partitioning of the boundary spacetime of a holographic CFT in any state describing a classical bulk geometry. We argue that the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-09-09 Sergio Hernández-Cuenca , Veronika E. Hubeny , Massimiliano Rota

Entanglement entropy is a valuable tool for characterizing the correlation structure of quantum field theories. When applied to gauge theories, subtleties arise which prevent the factorization of the Hilbert space underlying the notion of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-05-18 Clement Delcamp , Bianca Dittrich , Aldo Riello

We show that every holographic entropy inequality can be recast in the form: "some entanglement wedges reach deeper in the bulk than some other entanglement wedges." When the inequality is saturated, the two sets of wedges reach equally…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-01-13 Bartlomiej Czech , Sirui Shuai

We use the holographic methods to calculate the entanglement entropy for field theories modified by $T\bar{T}$ insertion. Based on the available holographic proposals, this calculation reduces to the holographic computations in AdS with…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-01-26 Kuroush Allameh , Amin Faraji Astaneh , Alireza Hassanzadeh