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We compute a holographic entanglement entropy via Ryu--Takayanagi prescription in the three-dimensional Friedmann--Lema\^itre--Robertson--Walker universe. We consider two types of holographic scenarios analogous to the static patch…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-08-21 Toshifumi Noumi , Fumiya Sano , Yu-ki Suzuki

We argue that the holographic formula relating entanglement entropy and the area of a minimal surface is the key to define the area of surfaces in the (emergent) spacetime from the dual theory on the boundary. So we promote the entropy/area…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-04-14 Marcelo Botta Cantcheff

We study entanglement entropy for a class of states in quantum field theory that are entangled superpositions of coherent states with well-separated supports, analogous to Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen or Bell states. We calculate the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-05-28 Curtis T. Asplund

We propose an analogue of the Ryu-Takayanagi formula for holographic entanglement entropy applicable to non-relativistic holographic dualities involving Horava gravity. This is a powerful tool for the duality to have, as topological order…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-07-27 Stefan Janiszewski

We propose a covariant prescription to compute holographic entanglement entropy and Poincare blocks (Global BMS blocks) in the context of three-dimensional Einstein gravity in flat space. We first present a prescription based on worldline…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-06-13 Eliot Hijano , Charles Rabideau

In this work we investigate holographic spacelike and timelike entanglement entropy using the Ryu-Takayanagi prescription, for slab-shaped and ball-shaped entangling regions. We work with an infinite family of 10-dimensional Type IIB…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-01-09 Jonathan Whittle

Using the proposal for holographic entanglement entropy in higher derivative gravities, we compute holographic entanglement entropy for the conformal gravity in four dimensions which turns out to be finite. However, if one subtracts the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-03-05 Mohsen Alishahiha , Amin Faraji Astaneh , M. Reza Mohammadi Mozaffar

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

We consider the emergence from quantum entanglement of spacetime geometry in a bulk region. For certain classes of quantum states in an appropriately factorized Hilbert space, a spatial geometry can be defined by associating areas along…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-04-11 ChunJun Cao , Sean M. Carroll

We introduce a prescription to compute the entanglement entropy of Galilean conformal field theories by combining gravitational anomalies and an \.{I}n\"{o}n\"{u}-Wigner contraction. We find that our expression for the entanglement entropy…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-03-02 Seyed Morteza Hosseini , Alvaro Veliz-Osorio

These notes, based on lectures given at various schools over the last few years, aim to provide an introduction to entanglement entropies in quantum field theories, including holographic ones. We explore basic properties and simple examples…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-07-19 Matthew Headrick

We propose a framework for preparing quantum states with a holographic entanglement structure, in the sense that the entanglement entropies are governed by minimal surfaces in a chosen bulk geometry. We refer to such entropies as…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-30 Jonathan Jeffrey , Lucien Gandarias , Monika Schleier-Smith , Brian Swingle

Entanglement entropy for a spatial partition of a quantum system is studied in theories which admit a dual description in terms of the anti-de Sitter (AdS) gravity one dimension higher. A general proof of the holographic formula which…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-02-03 Dmitri V. Fursaev

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 use the intertwining properties of integral transformations to provide a compact proof of the holographic equivalence between the first law of entanglement entropy and the linearized gravitational equations, in the context of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-04-07 Benjamin Mosk

In the context of the holographic duality, the entanglement entropy of ordinary QFT in a subregion in the boundary is given by a quarter of the area of an minimal surface embedded in the bulk spacetime. This rule has been also extended to a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-08-26 Marcelo Botta-Cantcheff , Pedro J. Martinez , Juan F. Zarate

The Renyi entropies and entanglement entropy of 1+1 CFTs with gravity duals can be computed by explicit construction of the bulk spacetimes dual to branched covers of the boundary geometry. At the classical level in the bulk this has…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-12-16 Taylor Barrella , Xi Dong , Sean A. Hartnoll , Victoria L. Martin

We consider entanglement entropy in quantum field theories with a gravity dual. In the gravity description, the leading order contribution comes from the area of a minimal surface, as proposed by Ryu-Takayanagi. Here we describe the one…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-16 Thomas Faulkner , Aitor Lewkowycz , Juan Maldacena

We propose entanglement entropy as a probe of the architecture of spacetime in quantum gravity. We argue that the leading contribution to this entropy satisfies an area law for any sufficiently large region in a smooth spacetime, which, in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-12-21 Eugenio Bianchi , Robert C. Myers

A remarkable yet mysterious property of black holes is that their entropy is proportional to the horizon area. This area law inspired the holographic principle, which was later realized concretely in gauge/gravity duality. In this context,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-08-15 Xi Dong