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We extend our studies of holographic entropy inequalities to gapped phases of matter. For any number of regions, we determine the linear entropy inequalities satisfied by systems in which the entanglement entropy satisfies an exact area…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-10-02 Ning Bao , ChunJun Cao , Michael Walter , Zitao Wang

In this thesis, we study a variety of phenomena in strongly coupled quantum field theories by performing calculations in their gravitational duals. We compute entanglement entropy in a variety of holographic systems, paying particular…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-12-23 Ronnie Rodgers

We compute the entanglement entropy for some quantum field theories on de Sitter space. We consider a superhorizon size spherical surface that divides the spatial slice into two regions, with the field theory in the standard vacuum state.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-11 Juan Maldacena , Guilherme L. Pimentel

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

We show the entanglement entropy in certain quantum field theories to contain state-dependent divergences. Both perturbative and holographic examples are exhibited. However, quantities such as the relative entropy and the generalized…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-07-25 Donald Marolf , Aron C. Wall

We consider the entanglement entropy for a spacetime region and its spacelike complement in the framework of algebraic quantum field theory. For a M\"obius covariant local net satisfying a certain nuclearity property, we consider the von…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-07-04 Yul Otani , Yoh Tanimoto

Entanglement asymmetry is an observable in quantum systems, constructed using quantum-information methods, suited to detecting symmetry breaking in states -- possibly out of equilibrium -- relative to a subsystem. In this paper we define…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-01-27 Francesco Benini , Pasquale Calabrese , Michele Fossati , Amartya Harsh Singh , Marco Venuti

Entanglement is one of the key feature of quantum world and any entanglement measure must satisfy some basic laws. Most important of them is the invariance of entanglement under local unitary operations. We show that this is no longer true…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-04-25 Arun Kumar Pati

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

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

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

We develop a theory of gapped domain wall between topologically ordered systems in two spatial dimensions. We find a new type of superselection sector -- referred to as the parton sector -- that subdivides the known superselection sectors…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-06-01 Bowen Shi , Isaac H. Kim

We demonstrate that linear combinations of subregion entropies with canceling boundary terms, commonly used to calculate the topological entanglement entropy, may suffer from spurious nontopological contributions even in models with zero…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-04-16 Dominic J. Williamson , Arpit Dua , Meng Cheng

This is an extended version of the previous paper arXiv:2103.05303 to study entanglement entropy (EE) of a half space in interacting field theories. In the previous paper, we have proposed a novel method to calculate EE based on the notion…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-06-30 Satoshi Iso , Takato Mori , Katsuta Sakai

We introduce a series of quantities which characterizes a given local operator in conformal field theories from the viewpoint of quantum entanglement. It is defined by the increased amount of (Renyi) entanglement entropy at late time for an…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-03-26 Masahiro Nozaki , Tokiro Numasawa , Tadashi Takayanagi

We review a notion of completeness in QFT arising from the analysis of basic properties of the set of operator algebras attached to regions. In words, this completeness asserts that the physical observable algebras produced by local degrees…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-01-05 Horacio Casini , Javier M. Magan

Entanglement entropy appears as a central property of quantum systems in broad areas of physics. However, its precise value is often sensitive to unknown microphysics, rendering it incalculable. By considering parametric dependence on…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-02-09 Mark P. Hertzberg , Frank Wilczek

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

In this paper, we explore the question of how different gauge choices in a gauge theory affect the tensor product structure of the Hilbert space in configuration space. In particular, we study the Coulomb gauge and observe that the naive…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-03-28 Zhi Yang , Ling-Yan Hung

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