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We study the entanglement entropy for time-like subsystem in two-dimensional boundary conformal field theory (BCFT) both from the field theory and holographic point of view. In field theory, we compute the time-like entanglement entropy of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-03-12 Chong-Sun Chu , Himanshu Parihar

In this paper we review the AdS/BCFT proposal of T. Takayanagi for holographic description of systems with boundaries, in particular, boundary conformal field theories (BCFTs). Motivated by better understanding of the proposed duality we…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-12-11 Arthur G. Cavalcanti , Dmitry Melnikov , Madson R. O. Silva

We study the holographic entanglement entropy of spatial regions having arbitrary shapes in the AdS4/BCFT3 correspondence with static gravitational backgrounds, focusing on the subleading term with respect to the area law term in its…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-09-25 Domenico Seminara , Jacopo Sisti , Erik Tonni

We elaborate on the method introduced in arXiv:2403.02165 for holographic duals of Boundary Conformal Field Theories (BCFTs) with multiple boundaries. Using these advances we calculate the entanglement entropy as a function of time for…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-02-25 Joseph Lap , Berndt Mueller , Andreas Schaefer , Clemens Seidl

We show the violation of the entanglement-area law for bosonic systems with Bose surfaces. For bosonic systems with gapless factorized energy dispersions on a N^d Cartesian lattice in d-dimension, e.g., the exciton Bose liquid in two…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-12-03 Hsin-Hua Lai , Kun Yang , N. E. Bonesteel

We study the scaling behavior of the entanglement entropy of two dimensional conformal quantum critical systems, i.e. systems with scale invariant wave functions. They include two-dimensional generalized quantum dimer models on bipartite…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-03-28 Benjamin Hsu , Michael Mulligan , Eduardo Fradkin , Eun-Ah Kim

We re-examine holographic versions of the c-theorem and entanglement entropy in the context of higher curvature gravity and the AdS/CFT correspondence. We select the gravity theories by tuning the gravitational couplings to eliminate…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-02-22 Robert C. Myers , Aninda Sinha

We study the entanglement entropy of theories that are derived from relevant perturbation of given CFTs for regions with a singular boundary by using the AdS/CFT correspondence. In the smooth case, it is well known that a relevant…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-02-26 Mostafa Ghasemi , Shahrokh Parvizi

We propose a holographic entanglement entropy prescription for general states and regions in two models of holography beyond AdS/CFT known as flat$_3$/BMSFT and (W)AdS$_3$/WCFT. Flat$_3$/BMSFT is a candidate of holography for asymptotically…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-12-15 Luis Apolo , Hongliang Jiang , Wei Song , Yuan Zhong

Entanglement asymmetry is a relative entropy that faithfully diagnoses symmetry breaking in quantum states, possibly within a spatial subregion. In this work, we extend such framework to higher-form symmetries and compute entanglement…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-02-26 Francesco Benini , Eduardo García-Valdecasas , Stathis Vitouladitis

A recent proposal by Ryu and Takayanagi for a holographic interpretation of entanglement entropy in conformal field theories dual to supergravity on anti-de Sitter (adS) is generalized to include entanglement entropy of black holes living…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 Sergey N. Solodukhin

Entanglement entropy of gauge fields is calculated using the partition function in curved spacetime with a boundary. We derive a Gibbons-Hawking-like term from a Becchi-Rouet-Stora-Tyutin (BRST) action and a Wald-entropy-like codimension-2…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-02-02 Kuo-Wei Huang

A state in a quantum system with a given global symmetry, $G$, can be sensitive to the presence of boundaries, which may either preserve or break this symmetry. In this work, we investigate how conformal invariant boundary conditions…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-09-15 Yuya Kusuki , Sara Murciano , Hirosi Ooguri , Sridip Pal

According to Ryu and Takayanagi, the entanglement entropy in conformal field theory (CFT) is related through the AdS/CFT correspondence to the area of a minimal surface in the bulk. We study this holographic geometrical method of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-07-18 Pavel Krtous , Andrei Zelnikov

Assuming that the dominant contribution, to the entropy due to entanglement across a spherical hypersurface, comes from the near horizon degrees of freedom, we analytically derive the entropy of a free massless scalar field in Minkowski…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-08-19 Suman Ghosh

We explore properties of the universal terms in the entanglement entropy and logarithmic negativity in 4d CFTs, aiming to clarify the ways in which they behave like the analogous entanglement measures in quantum mechanics. We show that,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-10-28 Eric Perlmutter , Mukund Rangamani , Massimiliano Rota

We study entanglement entropy for parity-violating (time-reversal breaking) quantum field theories on $\mathbb{R}^{1,2}$ in the presence of a domain wall between two distinct parity-odd phases. The domain wall hosts a 1+1-dimensional…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-04-06 Taylor L. Hughes , Robert G. Leigh , Onkar Parrikar , Srinidhi T. Ramamurthy

Using the AdS/CFT correspondence, we examine entanglement entropy for a boundary theory deformed by a relevant operator and establish two results. The first is that if there is a contribution which is logarithmic in the UV cut-off, then the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-11-07 Ling-Yan Hung , Robert C. Myers , Michael Smolkin

Entanglement entropy of holographic CFTs is expected to play a crucial role in the reconstruction of semiclassical bulk gravity. We consider the entanglement entropy of spherical regions of vacuum, which is known to contain universal…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-11-10 Felix M. Haehl

The entanglement entropy corresponding to a smooth region in general three-dimensional CFTs contains a constant universal term, $-F \subset S_{\text{EE}}$. For a disk region, $F|_{\rm disk}\equiv F_0$ coincides with the free energy on…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-11-10 Pablo Bueno , Horacio Casini , Oscar Lasso Andino , Javier Moreno