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We develop the holographic framework for the $\textrm{T}\overline{\textrm{T}}$ deformation of two-dimensional conformal field theories (CFT$_2$) with gravitational anomalies, characterized by unequal left and right central charges and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-08-07 Debarshi Basu , Qiang Wen , Mingshuai Xu

We propose a candidate $c$-function in arbitrary dimensional quantum field theories with broken Lorentz and rotational symmetry. For holographic theories we derive the necessary and sufficient conditions on the geometric background for…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-02-12 Chong-Sun Chu , Dimitrios Giataganas

Inspired by the holographic computation of large interval entanglement entropy of two dimensional conformal field theory at high temperature, it was proposed that the thermal entropy is related to the entanglement entropy as…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-01 Bin Chen , Jie-qiang Wu

Energy-momentum tensor in general conformal field theories have improvement ambiguity and it can affect the argument in deriving $c$-theorem. While the derivation of Zamolodchikov's c-theorem is still formally valid with the improved…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-03-17 Nanami Nakamura , Yu Nakayama

Defects are common in physical systems with boundaries, impurities or extensive measurements. The interaction between bulk and defect can lead to rich physical phenomena. Defects in gapless phases of matter with conformal symmetry usually…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-07-30 Zheng Zhou , Davide Gaiotto , Yin-Chen He , Yijian Zou

The F theorem states that, for a unitary three dimensional quantum field theory, the F quantity defined in terms of the partition function on a three sphere is positive, stationary at fixed point and decreases monotonically along a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-04-26 Marika Taylor , William Woodhead

The vacuum entanglement entropy of a general conformal field theory (CFT) in $d=5$ spacetime dimensions contains a universal term, $F(A)$, which has a complicated and non-local dependence on the geometric details of the region $A$ and the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-01-03 Giorgos Anastasiou , Ignacio J. Araya , Pablo Bueno , Javier Moreno , Rodrigo Olea , Alejandro Vilar Lopez

We investigate relevant deformation and the renormalization group flow in a defect conformal field theory from the point of view of the holography. We propose a candidate of g-function in the context of the holography, and prove the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 Satoshi Yamaguchi

We study holographic pseudoentropy for subregions in non-unitary Euclidean conformal field theories (CFTs) within the framework of the de Sitter/conformal field theory (dS/CFT) correspondence. Pseudoentropy, defined as the von Neumann…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-28 Giorgos Anastasiou , Ignacio J. Araya , Avijit Das , Javier Moreno

In this work, we study the holographic entanglement entropy of two dimensional $T\bar{T}$-deformed conformal field theory. We compute the correction due to the deformation up to the leading order of the deformation parameter in the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-08-17 M. R. Setare , S. N. Sajadi

We establish the emergence of a conformal field theory (CFT) in a (1+1)-dimensional hybrid quantum circuit right at the measurement-driven entanglement transition by revealing space-time conformal covariance of entanglement entropies and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-09-15 Yaodong Li , Xiao Chen , Andreas W. W. Ludwig , Matthew P. A. Fisher

We consider a composite defect system where a lower-dimensional defect (sub-defect) is embedded to a higher-dimensional one, and examine renormalization group (RG) flows localized on the defect. A composite defect is constructed in the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-11-11 Dongsheng Ge , Tatsuma Nishioka , Soichiro Shimamori

In the context of the gauge/gravity duality, using the proposed candidate $c$-function, which is derived from the entanglement entropy of a strip-shaped region, we investigate the RG flow for $d+1$-dimensional quantum field theories with…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-09-20 Mostafa Ghasemi , Shahrokh Parvizi

Two-dimensional conformal field theories exhibit a universal free energy in the high temperature limit $T \to \infty$, and a universal spectrum in the Cardy regime, $\Delta \to \infty$. We show that a much stronger form of universality…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-19 Thomas Hartman , Christoph A. Keller , Bogdan Stoica

We study 2+1 dimensional conformal field theories (CFTs) with a globally conserved U(1) charge, placed in a chemical potential which is periodically modulated along the spatial direction $x$ with zero average: $\mu(x) = V \cos(kx)$. The…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-01-29 Paul Chesler , Andrew Lucas , Subir Sachdev

We study the partition function of odd-dimensional conformal field theories placed on spheres with a squashed metric. We establish that the round sphere provides a local extremum for the free energy which, in general, is not a global…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-07-21 Nikolay Bobev , Pablo Bueno , Yannick Vreys

For Axiom A diffeomorphisms and flows, the celebrated Spectral Decomposition Theorem of Smale states that the non-wandering set decomposes into a finite disjoint union of isolated compact invariant sets, each of which is the homoclinic…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-06-26 Maria Jose Pacifico , Fan Yang , Jiagang Yang

We derive a covariant expression for the renormalized holographic entanglement entropy for Conformal Field Theories (CFTs) dual to Quadratic Curvature Gravity in arbitrary dimensions. This expression is written as the sum of the bare…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-10-04 Giorgos Anastasiou , Ignacio J. Araya , Javier Moreno , Rodrigo Olea , David Rivera-Betancour

Using holographic entanglement entropy for strip geometry, we construct a candidate for a c-function in arbitrary dimensions. For holographic theories dual to Einstein gravity, this c-function is shown to decrease monotonically along RG…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-04 Robert C. Myers , Ajay Singh

Entanglement entropy plays a variety of roles in quantum field theory, including the connections between quantum states and gravitation through the holographic principle. This article provides a review of entanglement entropy from a mixed…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-12-30 Tatsuma Nishioka