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In this letter new aspects of string theory propagating in a pp-wave time dependent background with a null singularity are explored. It is shown the appearance of a 2d entanglement entropy dynamically generated by the background. For…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 A. L. Gadelha , Dafni Z. Marchioro , Daniel L. Nedel

Conformal field theories in curved backgrounds have been used to describe inhomogeneous one-dimensional systems, such as quantum gases in trapping potentials and non-equilibrium spin chains. This approach provided, in a elegant and simple…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-03-26 Sara Murciano , Paola Ruggiero , Pasquale Calabrese

We study the question of how reliably one can distinguish two quantum field theories (QFTs). Each QFT defines a probability distribution on the space of fields. The relative entropy provides a notion of proximity between these distributions…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-08 Vijay Balasubramanian , Jonathan J. Heckman , Alexander Maloney

The entanglement entropy in a quantum field theory between two regions of space has been shown in simple cases to be proportional to the volume of the hypersurface separating the regions. We prove that this is true for a free scalar field…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Micheal S. Berger , Roman V. Buniy

Regulated Lorentz invariant quantum field theories satisfy an area law for the entanglement entropy $S$ of a spatial subregion in the ground state in $d>1$ spatial dimensions; nevertheless, the full density matrix contains many more than…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-04-25 Brian Swingle

Special approximation technique for analysis of different characteristics of states of multipartite infinite-dimensional quantum systems is proposed and applied to study of the relative entropy of entanglement and its regularisation. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-01-11 M. E. Shirokov

For time-independent excited states in conformal field theories, the entanglement entropy of small subsystems satisfies a `first law'-like relation, in which the change in entanglement is proportional to the energy within the entangling…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-09-25 Sagar F. Lokhande , Gerben W. J. Oling , Juan F. Pedraza

Relative entropy serves as a cornerstone concept in quantum information theory. In this work, we study relative entropy of random states from major generic state models of Hilbert-Schmidt and Bures-Hall ensembles. In particular, we derive…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-05-28 Lu Wei

We in this paper strictly prove that some block diagonalizable two qubit entangled state with six none zero elements reaches its quantum relative entropy entanglement by the a separable state having the same matrix structure. The entangled…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Xiao-yu Chen , Li-min Meng , Li-zhen Jiang , Xiang-jun Li

We consider the relative entropy between the vacuum state and a state obtained by applying an exponentiated stress tensor to the vacuum of a chiral conformal field theory on the lightray. The smearing function of the stress tensor can be…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-01-08 Stefan Hollands

We compute Araki's relative entropy associated to a bounded interval $I=(a,b)$ between a thermal state and a coherent excitation of itself in the bosonic U(1)-current model, namely the (derivative of the) chiral boson. For this purpose we…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-06-28 Alan Garbarz , Gabriel Palau

We consider the gravity dual of the modular Hamiltonian associated to a general subregion of a boundary theory. We use it to argue that the relative entropy of nearby states is given by the relative entropy in the bulk, to leading order in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-06-29 Daniel L. Jafferis , Aitor Lewkowycz , Juan Maldacena , S. Josephine Suh

Quantifying entanglement for multipartite quantum state is a crucial task in many aspects of quantum information theory. Among all the entanglement measures, relative entropy of entanglement $E_{R}$ is an outstanding quantity due to its…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-10-30 Shi-Yao Hou , Chenfeng Cao , D. L. Zhou , Bei Zeng

In this paper, we introduce and study unified $(r,s)$-relative entropy and quantum unified $(r,s)$-relative entropy, in particular, our main results of quantum unified $(r,s)$-relative entropy are established on the separable complex…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-11-10 Wang Jiamei , Wu Junde

We introduce a series of quantities which characterizes a given local operator in conformal field theories from the viewpoint of quantum entanglement. It is defined by the increased amount of (Renyi) entanglement entropy at late time for an…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-03-26 Masahiro Nozaki , Tokiro Numasawa , Tadashi Takayanagi

The general framework of Entropic Dynamics (ED) is used to construct non-relativistic models of relational quantum mechanics from well known inference principles -- probability, entropy and information geometry. Although only partially…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-29 Ariel Caticha , Hassaan Saleem

We consider two-dimensional states of matter satisfying an uniform area law for entanglement. We show that the topological entanglement entropy is equal to the minimum relative entropy distance from the reduced state to the set of thermal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-06-26 Kohtaro Kato , Fernando G. S. L. Brandao

The geometric entanglement entropy of a quantum field in the vacuum state is known to be divergent and, when regularized, to scale as the area of the boundary of the region. Here we introduce an operational definition of the entropy of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-04-10 Eugenio Bianchi , Alejandro Satz

For a special class of bipartite states we calculate explicitly the asymptotic relative entropy of entanglement $E_R^\infty$ with respect to states having a positive partial transpose (PPT). This quantity is an upper bound to distillable…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 K. Audenaert , B. De Moor , K. G. H. Vollbrecht , R. F. Werner

We present the modified relative entropy of entanglement (MRE) that is proved to be a upper bound of distillable entanglement (DE), also relative entropy of entanglement (RE), and a lower bound of entanglement of formation (EF). For a pure…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 An Min Wang