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We investigate the finite-size corrections of the entanglement entropy of critical ladders and propose a conjecture for its scaling behavior. The conjecture is verified for free fermions, Heisenberg and quantum Ising ladders. Our results…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-22 J. C. Xavier , F. B. Ramos

We consider holographic duals of $2$-dimensional conformal field theories in the presence of a boundary, interface, defect and/or junction, referred to collectively as BCFTs. In general, the presence of a boundary reduces the $SO(2,2)$…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-18 John Estes

We show that the entanglement entropy and alpha entropies corresponding to spatial polygonal sets in $(2+1)$ dimensions contain a term which scales logarithmically with the cutoff. Its coefficient is a universal quantity consisting in a sum…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 H. Casini , M. Huerta

This paper revisits standard calculations of free field entanglement entropy in light of the newly developed lattice-continuum correspondence. This correspondence prescribes an explicit method to extract an approximately continuum quantum…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-07-20 Djordje Radicevic

We calculate the entanglement and the universal boundary entropy (BE) in the critical quantum spin chains, such as the transverse field Ising chain and the XXZ chain, with arbitrary direction of the boundary magnetic field (ADBMF). We…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-07-01 J. C. Xavier , M. A. Rajabpour

This paper is an extended version of our short letter on a new proposal for holographic boundary conformal field, i.e., BCFT. By using the Penrose-Brown-Henneaux (PBH) transformation, we successfully obtain the expected boundary Weyl…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-05-24 Chong-Sun Chu , Rong-Xin Miao , Wu-Zhong Guo

We consider a quantum junction described by a 1+1-dimensional boundary conformal field theory (BCFT). Our analysis focuses on correlations emerging at finite temperature, achieved through the computation of entanglement measures. Our…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-05-28 Luca Capizzi , Andrei Rotaru

We demonstrate that the entropy of entanglement and the distillable entanglement of regions with respect to the rest of a general harmonic lattice system in the ground or a thermal state scale at most as the boundary area of the region.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 M. Cramer , J. Eisert , M. B. Plenio , J. Dreissig

We study the holographic entanglement entropy of spatial regions with corners in the AdS4/BCFT3 correspondence by considering three dimensional boundary conformal field theories whose boundary is a timelike plane. We compute analytically…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-12-19 Domenico Seminara , Jacopo Sisti , Erik Tonni

The trace over the degrees of freedom located in a subset of the space transforms the vacuum state into a mixed density matrix with non zero entropy. This is usually called entanglement entropy, and it is known to be divergent in quantum…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 H. Casini , M. Huerta

We derive the universal terms of entanglement entropy for 6d CFTs by applying the holographic and the field theoretical approaches, respectively. Our formulas are conformal invariant and agree with the results of [34,35]. Remarkably, we…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-09-22 Rong-Xin Miao

The entanglement entropy of a pure quantum state of a bipartite system $A \cup B$ is defined as the von Neumann entropy of the reduced density matrix obtained by tracing over one of the two parts. Critical ground states of local…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2008-11-26 Eduardo Fradkin , Joel E. Moore

The entanglement entropy of a distinguished region of a quantum many-body system reflects the entanglement present in its pure ground state. In this work, we establish scaling laws for this entanglement for critical quasi-free fermionic and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-11-11 M. Cramer , J. Eisert , M. B. Plenio

We study the universal scaling behavior of the entanglement entropy of critical theories in $2+1$ dimensions. We specially consider two fermionic scale-invariant models, free massless Dirac fermions and a model of fermions with quadratic…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-02-24 Xiao Chen , Gil Young Cho , Thomas Faulkner , Eduardo Fradkin

R\'enyi entropies, $S_n$, admit a natural generalization in the presence of global symmetries. These "charged R\'enyi entropies" are functions of the chemical potential $\mu$ conjugate to the charge contained in the entangling region and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-07-20 Pablo Bueno , Pablo A. Cano , Ángel Murcia , Alberto Rivadulla Sánchez

Boundary effects play an interesting role in finite-size physical systems. In this work, we study the boundary-induced properties of 1+1-dimensional critical systems driven by inhomogeneous M\"obius-like quenches. We focus on the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-07-02 Alice Bernamonti , Federico Galli , Dongsheng Ge

We investigate the R\'enyi entanglement entropies for the one-dimensional massless free boson compactified on a circle, which describes the low energy sector of several interacting many-body 1d systems (Luttinger Liquid). We focus on…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-10-25 Alvise Bastianello

We analyze the ground-state entanglement entropy of the extended Bose-Hubbard model with infinite-range interactions. This model describes the low-energy dynamics of ultracold bosons tightly bound to an optical lattice and dispersively…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2022-10-18 Shraddha Sharma , Simon B. Jaeger , Rebecca Kraus , Tommaso Roscilde , Giovanna Morigi

We determine the universal part of pseudoentropy for small shape deformations of spherical entangling surfaces in the context of de Sitter/conformal field theory (dS/CFT) correspondence. The leading correction at quadratic order in the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-12-03 Giorgos Anastasiou , Ignacio J. Araya , Avijit Das , Javier Moreno

We study entanglement properties of systems with spontaneously broken continuous symmetry. We find that in addition to the expected area law behavior, the entanglement entropy contains a subleading contribution which diverges…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-01-09 Max A. Metlitski , Tarun Grover