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Understanding quantum entanglement in interacting higher-dimensional conformal field theories is a challenging task, as direct analytical calculations are often impossible to perform. With holographic entanglement entropy, calculations of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-06-29 Alexander Jahn , Tadashi Takayanagi

We review some recent results on Sorkin's spacetime formulation of the entanglement entropy (SSEE) for a free quantum scalar field both in the continuum and in manifold-like causal sets. The SSEE for a causal diamond in a 2d cylinder…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-08-03 Abhishek Mathur , Sumati Surya , Nomaan X

The entanglement entropy (EE) of quantum systems is often used as a test of low-energy descriptions by conformal field theory (CFT). Here we point out that this is not a reliable indicator, as the EE often shows the same behavior even when…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-08-02 Pranay Patil , Ying Tang , Emanuel Katz , Anders W. Sandvik

We study entanglement entropy (EE) for a Maxwell field in 2+1 dimensions. We do numerical calculations in two dimensional lattices. This gives a concrete example of the general results of our recent work on entropy for lattice gauge fields…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-19 Horacio Casini , Marina Huerta

Entanglement entropy provides a powerful characterization of two-dimensional gapped topological phases of quantum matter, intimately tied to their description by topological quantum field theories (TQFTs). Fracton topological orders are…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-03-08 Han Ma , A. T. Schmitz , S. A. Parameswaran , Michael Hermele , Rahul M. Nandkishore

Quantum entanglement in 3 spatial dimensions is studied in systems with physical boundaries when an entangling surface intersects the boundary. We show that there are universal logarithmic boundary terms in the entanglement R\'{e}nyi…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-15 Dmitri Fursaev

We consider holographic entanglement entropy in AdS black hole backgrounds by using the limit of large number of dimensions. By dividing the geometry to two patches (with one patch covering the vicinity of the black hole horizon and another…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-03-27 Parul Jain , Matti Järvinen

Entanglement plays a pervasive role nowadays throughout quantum information science, and at the same time provides a bridging notion between quantum information science and fields as diverse as condensed-matter theory, quantum gravity, and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Lorenza Viola , Howard Barnum

The entanglement entropy (EE) has emerged as an important window into the structure of complex quantum states of matter. We analyze the universal part of the EE for gapless systems put on tori in 2d/3d, denoted by $\chi$. Focusing on scale…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-02-23 William Witczak-Krempa , Lauren E. Hayward Sierens , Roger G. Melko

Entanglement entropy~(EE) contains signatures of many universal properties of conformal field theories~(CFTs), especially in the presence of boundaries or defects. In particular, {\it topological} defects are interesting since they reflect…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-06-06 Ananda Roy , Hubert Saleur

We elucidate the topological features of the entanglement entropy of a region in two dimensional quantum systems in a topological phase with a finite correlation length $\xi$. Firstly, we suggest that simpler reduced quantities, related to…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-13 Stefanos Papanikolaou , Kumar S. Raman , Eduardo Fradkin

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

This paper explores the fundamental relationship between the geometry of entanglement and von Neumann entropy, shedding light on the intricate nature of quantum correlations. We provide a comprehensive overview of entanglement, highlighting…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-03 Ramita Sarkar , Soumik Mahanti , Prasanta K. Panigrahi

The aim of this dissertation is to clarify the structure of entanglement, a type of quantum correlations, in various quantum systems with a large number of degrees of freedom for holography between generic quantum systems and spacetimes…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-08-22 Takato Mori

We investigate the behavior of the entanglement entropy of a confining gauge theory near cosmological singularities using gauge/gravity duality. As expected, the coefficients of the UV divergent terms are given by simple geometric…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-07-26 Netta Engelhardt , Gary T. Horowitz

Determining whether a subspace spanned by certain quantum states is entangled and its entanglement dimensionality remains a fundamental challenge in quantum information science. This paper introduces a geometric measure of $r$-bounded rank,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-12 Xuanran Zhu , Chao Zhang , Bei Zeng

In the context of AdS/CFT, it was recently proposed that the boundary partial entanglement entropy structure can be represented by the so-called partial entanglement entropy (PEE) threads in the AdS bulk, which are bulk geodesics with the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-08-28 Qiang Wen , Mingshuai Xu , Haocheng Zhong

We study entanglement entropy of unusual $\mathbb{Z}_N$ topological stabilizer codes which admit fractional excitations with restricted mobility constraint in a manner akin to fracton topological phases. It is widely known that the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-07-30 Hiromi Ebisu

A definition for the entanglement entropy in a gauge theory was given recently in arXiv:1501.02593. Working on a spatial lattice, it involves embedding the physical state in an extended Hilbert space obtained by taking the tensor product of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-01-29 Ronak M Soni , Sandip P. Trivedi

In the context of partial entanglement entropy (PEE), we study the entanglement structure of the island phases realized in several 2-dimensional holographic set-ups. The self-encoding property of the island phase changes the way we evaluate…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-12-07 Debarshi Basu , Jiong Lin , Yizhou Lu , Qiang Wen