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According to Ryu and Takayanagi, the entanglement entropy in conformal field theory (CFT) is related through the AdS/CFT correspondence to the area of a minimal surface in the bulk. We study this holographic geometrical method of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-07-18 Pavel Krtous , Andrei Zelnikov

We provide a field-theoretic method to calculate entanglement entropy of CFT in all dimensions. This method works for entangling surfaces of arbitrary shape. The formalism manifests a field-theoretic proof of the Ryu-Takayanagi formula.

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-01-06 Xin Jiang , Haitang Yang

In this paper, we demonstrate the emergence of nonlinear gravitational equations directly from the physics of a broad class of conformal field theories. We consider CFT excited states defined by adding sources for scalar primary or stress…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-09-13 Thomas Faulkner , Felix M. Haehl , Eliot Hijano , Onkar Parrikar , Charles Rabideau , Mark Van Raamsdonk

The entanglement entropy in theories with a Fermi surface is known to produce a logarithmic violation of the usual area law behavior. We explore the possibility of producing this logarithmic violation holographically by analyzing the IR…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-03 Edgar Shaghoulian

We introduce a novel method for computing entanglement entropy across surfaces in Loop Quantum Gravity by employing techniques from quantum error correcting codes. In this construction, the redundancy encoded in the gauge invariant subspace…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-03 Sean Tobin

The path integral representation for the Renyi entanglement entropies of integer index n implies these information measures define operator correlation functions in QFT. We analyze whether the limit $n\rightarrow 1$, corresponding to the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-04 Horacio Casini , Marina Huerta

We study minimal co-dimension-2 surfaces in the asymptotically flat background of extremal 3-brane solutions in ten-dimensional type IIB supergravity. A conjectured open-closed string duality combined with the Ryu-Takayanagi prescription…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-01-13 Vasilis Niarchos

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 quantum corrections to holographic entanglement entropy in AdS$_3$/CFT$_2$; these are given by the bulk entanglement entropy across the Ryu-Takayanagi surface for all fields in the effective gravitational theory. We consider bulk…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-05-13 Alexandre Belin , Nabil Iqbal , Jorrit Kruthoff

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 study the growth of entanglement entropy in a doubly holographic model of gravity for a spherical AdS black hole. Compared to previous work, which was limited to the case of planar black holes, this introduces an extra scale to the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-06-14 Andreas Karch , Carlos Perez-Pardavila , Marcos Riojas , Merna Youssef

We study entanglement entropy for slab like regions in quantum field theories, using their holographic duals. We focus on the transition between space like and time like separations. By considering boosted subsystems in conformal and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-09-19 Carlos Nunez , Dibakar Roychowdhury

We present a constructive algorithm for the determination of Ryu-Takayanagi surfaces in AdS3/CFT2 which exploits previously noted connections between holographic entanglement entropy and max-flow/min-cut. We then characterize its complexity…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-11-23 Ning Bao , Aidan Chatwin-Davies

By generalizing different recent works to the context of higher curvature gravity, we provide a unifying framework for three related results: (i) If an asymptotically AdS spacetime computes the entanglement entropies of ball-shaped regions…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-05-22 Felix M. Haehl , Eliot Hijano , Onkar Parrikar , Charles Rabideau

We derive several new reformulations of the Hubeny-Rangamani-Takayanagi covariant holographic entanglement entropy formula. These include: (1) a minimax formula, which involves finding a maximal-area achronal surface on a timelike…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-07-03 Matthew Headrick , Veronika E. Hubeny

$T\bar T$ deformed CFTs with positive deformation parameter have been proposed to be holographically dual to Einstein gravity in a glue-on $\mathrm{AdS}_3$ spacetime. The latter is constructed from AdS$_3$ by gluing a patch of an auxiliary…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-01-30 Luis Apolo , Peng-Xiang Hao , Wen-Xin Lai , Wei Song

In this work we study a dissipative field theory where the dissipation process is manifestly related to dynamical entanglement and put it in the holographic context. Such endeavour is realized by further development of a canonical approach…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-02-12 M. Botta Cantcheff , Alexandre L. Gadelha , Dáfni F. Z. Marchioro , Daniel Luiz Nedel

We propose a new action for entanglement entropy in the framework of the AdS$_{3}$/CFT$_{2}$ correspondence. This action is constructed directly from the entanglement entropy of the CFT$_{2}$, and we show that the Einstein equations of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-04-16 Houwen Wu , Shuxuan Ying

The Ryu-Takayanagi formula implies many general properties of entanglement entropies in holographic theories. We review the known properties, such as continuity, strong subadditivity, and monogamy of mutual information, and fill in gaps in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-18 Matthew Headrick

In Conformal Field Theories with a gravitational AdS dual it is possible to calculate the entanglement entropy of a region $A$ holographically by using the Ryu-Takayanagi formula. In this work we consider systems that are in a pure state…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-07-06 Stefano Giusto , Rodolfo Russo