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Pseudo entropy is an interesting quantity with a simple gravity dual, which generalizes entanglement entropy such that it depends on both an initial and a final state. Here we reveal the basic properties of pseudo entropy in quantum field…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-03-03 Ali Mollabashi , Noburo Shiba , Tadashi Takayanagi , Kotaro Tamaoka , Zixia Wei

The BFSS matrix model relates flat space M-theory to a large N limit of matrix quantum mechanics describing N D0-branes. M-theory, being a theory of gravity in flat space, has a rich infrared structure that includes various soft theorems…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-08-09 Adam Tropper , Tianli Wang

In this paper we study various forms of RG, applying them to the BFSS model of $N$ coincident D0-branes. Firstly, as a warm-up, we perform standard Wilsonian RG, investigating the conditions under which supersymmetry is preserved along the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-05-20 João F. Melo , Jorge E. Santos

Important gaps remain in our understanding of the thermodynamics and statistical physics of self-gravitating systems. Using mean field theory, here we investigate the equilibrium properties of several spherically symmetric model systems…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 Peter J. Klinko , Bruce N. Miller

Bousso's entropy bound is a conjecture that the entropy through a null hypersurface emanating from a two-dimensional surface with a nonpositive expansion is bounded by the area of that two-dimensional surface. We investigate the validity of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-03-31 Takamasa Kanai , Kimihiro Nomura , Daisuke Yoshida

Taking into account the recent developments associated with duality in physics, this article is focused on investigating the properties of a tensor generalization of the electrodynamics dual to the standard vector model even considering the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-03-19 G. B. de Gracia , B. M. Pimentel

BFSS proposed that asymptotically flat M-theory is dual to a large $N$ limit of the matrix quantum mechanics describing $N$ nonrelativistic D0-branes. Recent insights on the soft symmetries of any quantum theory of gravity in asymptotically…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-09-01 Noah Miller , Andrew Strominger , Adam Tropper , Tianli Wang

Numerical studies of the reduced density matrix of a gapped spin-1/2 Heisenberg antiferromagnet on a two-leg ladder find that it has the same form as the Gibbs density matrix of a gapless spin-1/2 Heisenberg antiferromagnetic chain at a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-08-28 Xiao Chen , Eduardo Fradkin

We consider the Bekenstein-Hawking entropy-area formula in four dimensional extended ungauged supergravity and its electric-magnetic duality property. Symmetries of both "large" and "small" extremal black holes are considered, as well as…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-18 Bianca L. Cerchiai , Sergio Ferrara , Alessio Marrani , Bruno Zumino

Using the Ryu-Takayanagi conjectured formula for entanglement entropy in the context of gauge-gravity duality, we investigate properties of mutual information between two disjoint rectangular sub-systems in finite temperature relativistic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-07-09 Willy Fischler , Arnab Kundu , Sandipan Kundu

Gravitational thermodynamics and gravitoscalar thermodynamics with $S^2 \times \mathbb{R}$ boundary geometry are investigated through the partition function, assuming that all Euclidean saddle point geometries contribute to the path…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-09-28 Shoichiro Miyashita

Characterizing the entanglement of matrix degrees of freedom is essential for understanding the holographic emergence of spacetime. The Quantum Hall Matrix Model is a gauged $U(N)$ matrix quantum mechanics with two matrices whose ground…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-06-08 Alexander Frenkel , Sean A. Hartnoll

Einstein's General Relativity (GR) is a dynamical theory of the spacetime metric. We describe an approach in which GR becomes an SU(2) gauge theory. We start at the linearised level and show how a gauge theoretic Lagrangian for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-04 Kirill Krasnov

Three-dimensional conformal field theories (CFTs) of deconfined gauge fields coupled to gapless flavors of fermionic and bosonic matter describe quantum critical points of condensed matter systems in two spatial dimensions. An important…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-05-15 Igor R. Klebanov , Silviu S. Pufu , Subir Sachdev , Benjamin R. Safdi

We use gauge/gravity duality to study the thermodynamics of a generic almost conformal theory, specified by its beta function. Three different phases are identified, a high temperature phase of massless partons, an intermediate…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-20 J. Alanen , K. Kajantie , K. Tuominen

Given a closed, oriented, compact surface $S$ of constant negative curvature and genus $g \ge 2$, we study the measure-theoretic entropy of the Bowen-Series boundary map with respect to its smooth invariant measure. We obtain an explicit…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2021-04-07 Adam Abrams , Svetlana Katok , Ilie Ugarcovici

The area law-like scaling of local quantum entropies is the central characteristic of the entanglement inherent in quantum fields, many-body systems, and spacetime. Whilst the area law is primarily associated with the entanglement structure…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-19 Tobias Haas

We consider the general free field theory such that system of equations of motion includes a subsystem with a special property. If the subsystem is considered by itself, it would be a topological field theory having no local degrees of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-05-17 V. A. Abakumova , S. L. Lyakhovich

The entanglement entropy in one dimensional critical systems with boundaries has been associated with the noninteger ground state degeneracy. This quantity, being a characteristic of boundary fixed points, decreases under renormalization…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-08-30 Eyal Cornfeld , Eran Sela

We derive a generalized version of the Ryu-Takayanagi formula for the entanglement entropy in arbitrary diffeomorphism invariant field theories. We use a recent framework which expresses the measurable quantities of a quantum theory as a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-08-21 Artem Averin