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We investigate the emergence of thermodynamic arrow of time in the context of AdS/CFT correspondence. We show that, on the CFT side, if the two copies of the field theory are not initially correlated the entropy can only increase such that…

General Physics · Physics 2019-04-09 Ovidiu Racorean

How are the spatial and temporal patterns of information scrambling in locally interacting quantum many-body systems imprinted on the eigenstates of the system's time-evolution operator? We address this question by identifying statistical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-04 Bikram Pain , Ratul Thakur , Sthitadhi Roy

In this paper I propose a branch point twist field approach to computing a temporal entropy, that is, an entanglement measure across different time regions, as opposed to the usual spacial measures. I discuss how the shift to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-03-24 Olalla A. Castro-Alvaredo

The entropy production rate for an open quantum system with a classically chaotic limit has been previously argued to be independent of $\hbar$ and $D$, the parameter denoting coupling to the environment, and to be equal to the sum of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Arnaldo Gammal , Arjendu K. Pattanayak

We study quantum chaos in $\textrm{T}\overline{\textrm{T}}$-deformed two-dimensional conformal field theories with gravitational anomaly and their holographic dual description in topologically massive gravity. Using pole-skipping and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-14 Debarshi Basu , Mingshuai Xu

In this work, we develop a quantum metrological framework for quantum chaos by showing that local subsystems of information scrambling systems naturally function as quantum stopwatches. The reduced quantum state of a subsystem encodes the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-01 Devjyoti Tripathy , Federico Centrone , Sebastian Deffner

We study the relative R\'enyi entropy (RRE) under local quenches in two-dimensional conformal field theories (CFTs), focusing on rational CFTs (RCFTs) and holographic CFTs. In RCFTs, the RRE evolves as a monotonic function over time,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-12-22 Zi-Xuan Zhao , Song He , Hao Ouyang , Hong-an Zeng , Yu-Xuan Zhang

We study scrambling, an avatar of chaos, in a weakly interacting metal in the presence of random potential disorder. It is well known that charge and heat spread via diffusion in such an interacting disordered metal. In contrast, we show…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-09-15 Aavishkar A. Patel , Debanjan Chowdhury , Subir Sachdev , Brian Swingle

For holographic CFT states near the vacuum, entanglement entropies for spatial subsystems can be expressed perturbatively as an expansion in the one-point functions of local operators dual to light bulk fields. Using the connection between…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-07-20 Matthew J. S. Beach , Jaehoon Lee , Charles Rabideau , Mark Van Raamsdonk

We study universal features in the shape dependence of entanglement entropy in the vacuum state of a conformal field theory (CFT) on $\mathbb{R}^{1,d-1}$. We consider the entanglement entropy across a deformed planar or spherical entangling…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-04-22 Thomas Faulkner , Robert G. Leigh , Onkar Parrikar

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

Quantitative estimates are derived, on the whole space, for the relative entropy between the joint law of random interacting particles and the tensorized law at the limiting systeme. The developed method combines the relative entropy method…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-01-18 Paul Nikolaev , David J. Prömel

A measure of how sensitive the entanglement entropy is in a quantum system, has been proposed and its information geometric origin is discussed. It has been demonstrated for two exactly solvable spin systems, that thermodynamic criticality…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-10-02 Pritam Sarkar

It was recently noted that the entanglement entropy for a subsystem of a chaotic eigenstate exhibits an enhanced correction when the subsystem approaches a phase transition at half the total system size. This enhanced correction was derived…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-03-02 Sean McBride , Fernando Iniguez

How quantum information is scrambled in the global degrees of freedom of non-equilibrium many-body systems is a key question to understand local thermalization. Here we propose that the scaling of the mutual information between two…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-10-01 Vincenzo Alba , Pasquale Calabrese

We study the evolution of the universal area law of entanglement entropy when the Hamiltonian of the system undergoes a time dependent perturbation. In particular, we derive a general formula for the time dependent first order correction to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-09-21 Stefan Leichenauer , Mudassir Moosa , Michael Smolkin

We study the geometric distribution of the relative entropy of a charged localised state in Quantum Field Theory. With respect to translations, the second derivative of the vacuum relative entropy is zero out of the charge localisation…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-02-20 Roberto Longo

It has been proposed that the exponential decay and subsequent power law saturation of out-of-time-order correlation functions can be universally described by collective 'scramblon' modes. We develop this idea from a path integral…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-04-05 Changha Choi , Felix M. Haehl , Márk Mezei , Gábor Sárosi

The study of information scrambling has profoundly deepened our understanding of many-body quantum systems. Much recent research has been devote to understanding the interplay between scrambling and decoherence in open systems. Continuing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-04 Emanuel Dallas , Faidon Andreadakis , Paolo Zanardi

It is known that the entropy of a block of spins of size $L$ embedded in an infinite pure critical spin chain diverges as the logarithm of $L$ with a prefactor fixed by the central charge of the corresponding conformal field theory. For a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-11 Raoul Santachiara