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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 is a fundamental quantity which characterizes the correlations between sub-systems in a larger quantum-mechanical system. For two sub-systems separated by a surface the entanglement entropy is proportional to the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-27 Sergey N. Solodukhin

In this paper, we study the holographic quantum entanglement structure in the finite-temperature CFT state/planar BTZ black hole correspondence from the perspective of entanglement threads. Unlike previous studies based on bit threads,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-09-15 Yi-Yu Lin , Dong-Yu Fang , Jie-Chen Jin , Chen-Ye Li

We study the structure of divergences and universal terms of the entanglement and R\'enyi entropies for singular regions. First, we show that for $(3+1)$-dimensional free conformal field theories (CFTs), entangling regions emanating from…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-09-04 Pablo Bueno , Horacio Casini , William Witczak-Krempa

We study holographic entanglement entropy in four-dimensional quantum gravity with negative cosmological constant. By using the replica trick and evaluating path integrals in the minisuperspace approximation, in conjunction with the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-04-15 Shinji Hirano

We study one-loop bulk entanglement entropy in even spacetime dimensions using the heat kernel method, which captures the universal piece of entanglement entropy, a logarithmically divergent term in even dimensions. In four dimensions, we…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-07-21 Zhong-Ying Fan

For holographic CFT states near the vacuum, entanglement entropies for spatial subsystems can be expressed perturbatively as an expansion in the one-point functions of local operators dual to light bulk fields. Using the connection between…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-07-20 Matthew J. S. Beach , Jaehoon Lee , Charles Rabideau , Mark Van Raamsdonk

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

We consider deformation of a generic $d$ dimensional ($d\geq 2$) large-$N$ CFT on a sphere by a spin-0 operator which is bilinear in the components of the stress tensor. Such a deformation has been proposed to be holographically dual to an…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-09-26 Aritra Banerjee , Arpan Bhattacharyya , Soumangsu Chakraborty

We study the holographic entanglement entropy for singular surfaces in theories described holographically by hyperscaling violating backgrounds. We consider singular surfaces consisting of cones or creases in diverse dimensions. The…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-10-28 Mohsen Alishahiha , Amin Faraji Astaneh , Piermarco Fonda , Farzad Omidi

We derive in detail several universal features in the time evolution of entanglement entropy and other nonlocal observables in quenched holographic systems. The quenches are such that a spatially uniform density of energy is injected at an…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-03-26 Hong Liu , S. Josephine Suh

We study the entanglement entropy in confining theories with gravity duals using the holographic prescription of Ryu and Takayanagi. The entanglement entropy between a region and its complement is proportional to the minimal area of a bulk…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-18 Ari Pakman , Andrei Parnachev

Entanglement is the crucial ingredient of quantum many-body physics, and characterizing and quantifying entanglement in closed system dynamics of quantum simulators is an outstanding challenge in today's era of intermediate scale quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-08-31 Christian Kokail , Rick van Bijnen , Andreas Elben , Benoît Vermersch , Peter Zoller

The Ryu-Takayanagi prescription can be cast in terms of a set of microscopic threads that help visualize holographic entanglement in terms of distillation of EPR pairs. While this framework has been exploited for regions with a high degree…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-09-15 Umut Gürsoy , Juan F. Pedraza , Guim Planella Planas

Quantum entanglement between several particles is essential for applications like quantum metrology or quantum cryptography, but it is also central for foundational phenomena like quantum non-locality. This leads to the problem of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-10 Lisa T. Weinbrenner , Otfried Gühne

Motivated by the limited understanding of entanglement entropy in non-asymptotically AdS spacetimes, we develop a framework in which a circular string is embedded as a quantum probe in a spherically symmetric curved spacetime, and its…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-14 Ai-chen Li , Xin-Fei Li , Xuanting Ji

We study three different types of local quenches (local operator, splitting and joining) in both the free fermion and holographic CFTs in two dimensions. We show that the computation of a quantity called entanglement density, provides a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-03-29 Teppei Shimaji , Tadashi Takayanagi , Zixia Wei

We revisit the recent reformulation of the holographic prescription to compute entanglement entropy in terms of a convex optimization problem, introduced by Freedman and Headrick. According to it, the holographic entanglement entropy…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-05-16 Cesar A. Agón , Jan de Boer , Juan F. Pedraza

We study the entanglement properties of deconfined quantum critical points. We show not only that these critical points may be distinguished by their entanglement structure but also that they are in general more highly entangled that…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-05-30 Brian Swingle , T. Senthil

In this paper, we study the entanglement contour in a general excited state in the holographic 2d CFT using the partial entanglement entropy proposal. We show how thermodynamics fixes the entanglement contour relating it to the first law of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-05-28 Dmitry S. Ageev