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Let $H$ be a frustration-free Hamiltonian describing a 2D grid of qudits with local interactions, a unique ground state, and local spectral gap lower bounded by a positive constant. For any bipartition defined by a vertical cut of length…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-06-28 Anurag Anshu , Itai Arad , David Gosset

We propose a framework for preparing quantum states with a holographic entanglement structure, in the sense that the entanglement entropies are governed by minimal surfaces in a chosen bulk geometry. We refer to such entropies as…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-30 Jonathan Jeffrey , Lucien Gandarias , Monika Schleier-Smith , Brian Swingle

We expand our recent work on the outer entropy, a holographic coarse-grained entropy defined by maximizing the boundary entropy while fixing the classical bulk data outside some surface. When the surface is marginally trapped and satisfies…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-06-26 Netta Engelhardt , Aron C. Wall

The relative entropy between two states is a key concept in quantum information theory and quantum field theory. In the setting of quantum field theory, its computation requires the handling of relative modular Hamiltonians, which are…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-05-27 Adriano Chialastri , Christoph Minz , Ko Sanders

We argue that the degrees of freedom in a d-dimensional CFT can be re-organized in an insightful way by studying observables on the moduli space of causal diamonds (or equivalently, the space of pairs of timelike separated points). This…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-09-02 Jan de Boer , Felix M. Haehl , Michal P. Heller , Robert C. Myers

We study a class of quantum states involving multiple entangled CFTs in AdS$_3$/CFT$_2$, associated with multi-boundary black hole geometries, and demonstrate that the Ryu-Takayanagi (RT) formula for entanglement entropy can be derived…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-01-01 Ning Bao , Hao Geng , Yikun Jiang

We use holography in order to study the entanglement entropy for a spherical entangling surface in a FRW background with an arbitrary time dependence of the scale factor. The calculation is done in various dimensions, allowing for nonzero…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-07-07 D. Giataganas , N. Tetradis

Motivated by the HRRT-formula for holographic entanglement entropy, we consider the following question: what are the position and the surface area of extremal surfaces in a perturbed geometry, given their anchor on the asymptotic boundary?…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-04-03 Benjamin Mosk

We evaluate reflected entropy in certain anisotropic boundary theories dual to nonrelativistic geometries using holography. It is proposed that this quantity is proportional to the minimal area of the entanglement wedge cross section. Using…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-01-23 Mohammad Javad Vasli , M. Reza Mohammadi Mozaffar , Komeil Babaei Velni , Mohammad Sahraei

We introduce a simple geometrical construction similar to covariant holographic entanglement entropy but with the addition of a new term proportional to boundary region volume. This new procedure has properties strongly resembling classical…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-05-10 Sean J. Weinberg

We apply artificial neural networks to the holographic inverse problem, reconstructing bulk geometry from boundary entanglement entropy by using the Ryu--Takayanagi area functional as a differentiable loss. Validated on the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-04-08 Veselin G. Filev

We discuss the possible relevance of complex codimension-two extremal surfaces to the the Ryu-Takayanagi holographic entanglement proposal and its covariant Hubeny-Rangamani-Takayanagi (HRT) generalization. Such surfaces live in a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-10-23 Sebastian Fischetti , Donald Marolf

The Ryu-Takayanagi formula provides the entanglement entropy of quantum field theory as an area of the minimal surface (Ryu-Takayangi surface) in a corresponding gravity theory. There are some attempts to understand the formula as a flow…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-12-30 Jun Tsujimura , Yasusada Nambu

We study the action of Hubeny-Rangamani-Takayanagi (HRT) area operators on the covariant phase space of classical solutions. It has been previously proposed that this action generates a transformation which, roughly speaking, boosts the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-09-08 Molly Kaplan , Donald Marolf

We extend previous work on the perturbative expansion of the Renyi entropy, $S_q$, around $q=1$ for a spherical entangling surface in a general CFT. Applied to conformal scalar fields in various spacetime dimensions, the results appear to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-22 Jeongseog Lee , Aitor Lewkowycz , Eric Perlmutter , Benjamin R. Safdi

We calculate entanglement and impurity entropies in a recent holographic model of a magnetic impurity interacting with a strongly coupled system. There is an RG flow to an IR fixed point where the impurity is screened, leading to a decrease…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-02-05 Johanna Erdmenger , Mario Flory , Carlos Hoyos , Max-Niklas Newrzella , Jackson M. S. Wu

We study the short-distance structure of geometric entanglement entropy in certain theories with a built-in scale of nonlocality. In particular we examine the cases of Little String Theory and Noncommutative Yang-Mills theory, using their…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-19 Jose L. F. Barbon , Carlos A. Fuertes

In recent years, the holographic duality between $T\bar{T}$-deformed conformal field theory (CFT) and Anti-de Sitter (AdS) spacetime with finite radial cutoff has received significant attention. The study of $T\bar{T}$ deformation within…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-07-10 Jing-Cheng Chang , Song He , Yu-Xiao Liu , Long Zhao

We extend all known area inequalities obeyed by Ryu-Takayanagi surfaces of AdS boundary regions -- the holographic entropy cone -- to static generalized entanglement wedges of bulk regions in arbitrary spacetimes. The generalized…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-02-07 Raphael Bousso , Sami Kaya

We compute entanglement entropy for free massive scalar fields in anti-de Sitter (AdS) space. The entangling surface is a minimal surface whose boundary is a sphere at the boundary of AdS. The entropy can be evaluated from the thermal free…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-11-22 Sotaro Sugishita