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In a quantum circuit, it is believed that complexity itself reaches a maximum of order exponential in the number of q-bits or equivalently exponential in entropy of the black hole. However, the current holographic proposals do not meet this…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-03-23 Shahrokh Parvizi , Mojtaba Shahbazi

We compute the pseudo entropy in two-dimensional holographic and free Dirac fermion CFTs for excited states under joining local quenches. Our analysis reveals two of its characteristic properties that are missing in the conventional…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-02-20 Kotaro Shinmyo , Tadashi Takayanagi , Kenya Tasuki

We examine holographic entanglement entropy with higher curvature gravity in the bulk. We show that in general Wald's formula for horizon entropy does not yield the correct entanglement entropy. However, for Lovelock gravity, there is an…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-06-01 Ling-Yan Hung , Robert C. Myers , Michael Smolkin

We use the holographic proposal for calculating entanglement entropies to determine the boundary entropy of defects in strongly coupled two-dimensional conformal field theories. We study several examples including the Janus solution and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-12-15 Tatsuo Azeyanagi , Andreas Karch , Tadashi Takayanagi , Ethan G. Thompson

We study holographic entanglement entropy for certain logarithmic conformal field theories by making use of their gravity descriptions. The corresponding gravity descriptions are provided by higher derivative gravity at critical points…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-05-14 Mohsen Alishahiha , Amin Faraji Astaneh , M. Reza Mohammadi Mozaffar

We derive dynamics of the entanglement wedge cross section directly from the two-dimensional holographic CFTs with a local operator quench. This derivation is based on the reflected entropy, a correlation measure for mixed states. We…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-03-17 Yuya Kusuki , Kotaro Tamaoka

We describe an explicit mechanism for the emergence of a dynamical holographic bulk from the structure of entanglement in a quantum state. We start with a generic system in complete isolation, assuming it has a classical limit involving…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-06-25 Josh Kirklin

Recent work has revealed that entanglement entropy growth in conformal field theories (CFTs) can be suppressed when a local operator quench interacts with a mixed-state excitation, providing a dual interpretation in terms of black hole…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-21 Davood Momeni

In this work we study how entanglement of purification (EoP) and the new quantity of "complexity of purification" are related to each other using the $E_P=E_W$ conjecture. First, we consider two strips in the same side of a boundary and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-09-10 Mahdis Ghodrati , Xiao-Mei Kuang , Bin Wang , Cheng-Yong Zhang , Yu-Ting Zhou

Recently, Chapman et al. argued that holographic complexities for defects distinguish action from volume. Motivated by their work, we study complexity of quantum states in conformal field theory with boundary. In generic two-dimensional…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-01-08 Yoshiki Sato , Kento Watanabe

The holographic entanglement entropy functional for higher-curvature gravities involves a weighted sum whose evaluation, beyond quadratic order, requires a complicated theory-dependent splitting of the Riemann tensor components. Using the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-05-05 Pablo Bueno , Joan Camps , Alejandro Vilar López

Using a recent proposal of circuit complexity in quantum field theories introduced by Jefferson and Myers, we compute the time evolution of the complexity following a smooth mass quench characterized by a time scale $\delta t$ in a free…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-06-14 Daniel W. F. Alves , Giancarlo Camilo

In this paper, we first use the "complexity equals action" conjecture to discuss the complexity growth rate in both perturbation Einsteinian cubic gravity and non-perturbation Einstein-Weyl gravity. We find that the CA complexity rate in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-10-02 Jie Jiang , Xiao-Wei Li

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

We develop an analytic perturbative expansion to study the propagation of entanglement entropy for small subsystems after a global quench, in the context of the AdS/CFT correspondence. Opposite to the large interval limit, in this case the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-04-13 Sandipan Kundu , Juan F. Pedraza

We investigate the dynamical evolution of entanglement entropy in a holographic superconductor model by quenching the source term of the dual charged scalar operator. By access to the full background geometry, the holographic entanglement…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-04-17 Xiaojian Bai , Bum-Hoon Lee , Li Li , Jia-Rui Sun , Hai-Qing Zhang

We calculate the time evolution of entanglement entropy in two dimensional conformal field theory with a moving mirror. For a setup modeling Hawking radiation, we obtain a linear growth of entanglement entropy and show that this can be…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-02-17 Ibrahim Akal , Yuya Kusuki , Noburo Shiba , Tadashi Takayanagi , Zixia Wei

We investigate the first law of complexity proposed in arXiv:1903.04511, i.e., the variation of complexity when the target state is perturbed, in more detail. Based on Nielsen's geometric approach to quantum circuit complexity, we find the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-03-29 Alice Bernamonti , Federico Galli , Juan Hernandez , Robert C. Myers , Shan-Ming Ruan , Joan Simón

The local density approximation (LDA) constructed through quantum Monte Carlo calculations of the homogeneous electron gas (HEG) is the most common approximation to the exchange-correlation functional in density functional theory. We…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-01-15 Mike Entwistle , Matthew Hodgson , Jack Wetherell , Bradley Longstaff , James Ramsden , Rex Godby

For an ordinary charged system, it has been shown that by using the "complexity equals action" (CA) conjecture, the late-time growth rate of the holographic complexity is given by a difference between the value of $\Phi_H Q+\Omega_H J$ on…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-10-14 Jie Jiang , Ming Zhang