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We investigate the entanglement entropy (EE) of circular entangling cuts in the 2+1-dimensional quantum Lifshitz model, whose ground state wave function is a spatially conformal invariant state of the Rokhsar-Kivelson type, whose weight is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-09-15 Tianci Zhou , Xiao Chen , Thomas Faulkner , Eduardo Fradkin

We introduce a new measure called reduced entropy of sublattice to quantify entanglement in spin, electron and boson systems. By analyzing this quantity, we reveal an intriguing connection between quantum entanglement and quantum phase…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Y. Chen , Z. D. Wang , F. C. Zhang

We study the entanglement entropy between (possibly distinct) topological phases across an interface using an Abelian Chern-Simons description with topological boundary conditions (TBCs) at the interface. From a microscopic point of view,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-11-09 Jackson R. Fliss , Xueda Wen , Onkar Parrikar , Chang-Tse Hsieh , Bo Han , Taylor L. Hughes , Robert G. Leigh

We calculate the shape dependence of entanglement entropy in (5+1)-dimensional conformal field theory in terms of the extrinsic curvature of the entangling surface, the opening angles of possible conical singularities, and the conformal…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-12-12 Benjamin R. Safdi

We report on the recent progress in theoretical and numerical studies of entanglement entropy in lattice gauge theories. It is shown that the concept of quantum entanglement between gauge fields in two complementary regions of space can…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2009-09-29 P. V. Buividovich , M. I. Polikarpov

We argue that the requirement of a finite entanglement entropy of quantum degrees of freedom across a boundary surface is closely related to the phenomenon of running spectral dimension, universal in approaches to quantum gravity. If…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-10-18 Michele Arzano , Gianluca Calcagni

Entanglement or modular Hamiltonians play a crucial role in the investigation of correlations in quantum field theories. In particular, in 1+1 space-time dimensions, the spectra of entanglement Hamiltonians of conformal field theories…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-08-06 Ananda Roy , Frank Pollmann , Hubert Saleur

We study the holographic entanglement entropy and mutual information for Lorentz boosted subsystems. In holographic CFTs at zero and finite temperature, we find that the mutual information gets divergent in a universal way when the end…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-11-15 Yuya Kusuki , Tadashi Takayanagi , Koji Umemoto

We propose a holographic dual of boundary conformal field theory (BCFT) with $T\bar T$ deformation, i.e. of $T\bar T$ BCFT. Our holographic proposal distinguishes two types of $T\bar T$ BCFTs, depending on whether the $T\bar T$ deformation…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-01-07 Zhi Wang , Feiyu Deng

We revisit the question of the relation between entanglement, entropy, and area for harmonic lattice Hamiltonians corresponding to discrete versions of real free Klein-Gordon fields. For the ground state of the d-dimensional cubic harmonic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-01-18 M. B. Plenio , J. Eisert , J. Dreissig , M. Cramer

Magnetic properties of the transverse-field Ising model on curved (hyperbolic) lattices are studied by a tensor product variational formulation that we have generalized for this purpose. First, we identify the quantum phase transition for…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-06-27 Andrej Gendiar

We apply the universal method developed in \cite{Jiang:2025jnk} to compute the entanglement entropy between two tangent balls in CFT$_D$. When taking the radius of one ball to infinity, it gives the entanglement entropy between a ball and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-12-09 Jiankun Li , Li Song

We consider quantum entanglement between gauge fields in some region of space A and its complement B. It is argued that the Hilbert space of physical states of gauge theories cannot be decomposed into a direct product of Hilbert spaces of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-05-12 P. V. Buividovich , M. I. Polikarpov

It has long been conjectured that the entropy of quantum fields across boundaries scales as the boundary area. This conjecture has not been easy to test in spacetime dimensions greater than four because of divergences in the von Neumann…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-07-29 Samuel L. Braunstein , Saurya Das , S. Shankaranarayanan

Quantum gravity in a finite region of spacetime is conjectured to be dual to a conformal field theory deformed by the irrelevant operator $T \overline{T}$. We test this conjecture with entanglement entropy, which is sensitive to ultraviolet…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-10-03 William Donnelly , Vasudev Shyam

We study entanglement entropy (EE) in conformal field theories (CFTs) in Minkowski space with a planar boundary or with a planar defect of any codimension. In any such boundary CFT (BCFT) or defect CFT (DCFT), we consider the reduced…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-11-27 Kristan Jensen , Andy O'Bannon

We study entanglement entropy in gravity theory with quantum effects. A simplest model is a two dimensional Einstein-Hilbert action . We use an $n$-sheet manifold to obtain an area term of entanglement entropy by summing over all background…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-09-12 Chen-Te Ma

I study the entanglement entropy (EE) across a deformed sphere in conformal field theories (CFTs). I show that the sphere (locally) minimizes the universal term in EE among all shapes. In arXiv:1407.7249 it was derived that the sphere is a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-03-05 Márk Mezei

In the thin wall approximation, we study a class of asymptotically AdS black holes which contain a spherically symmetric vacuum bubble with a different (positive or negative) cosmological constant. Collapsing, expanding, and static bubble…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-03-05 Roberto Auzzi , Stefano Baiguera , Lihan Guo , Giuseppe Nardelli , Nicolò Zenoni

Entanglement entropy is crucial for understanding the link between quantum mechanics and information theory. This thesis investigates how energy fluctuations and acceleration affect entanglement entropy through three key scenarios. First,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-10-28 Felipe Diaz