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We analyze the holographic entanglement entropy in a soliton background with Wilson lines and derive a relation analogous to the first law of thermodynamics. The confinement/deconfinement phase transition occurs due to the competition of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-01-04 Mitsutoshi Fujita , Song He , Yuan Sun

We give a prescription for calculating the entanglement entropy in holographic probe brane systems by systematically taking the leading order backreaction of the probe brane into account. We find a simple compact double integral formula,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-16 Han-Chih Chang , Andreas Karch

We study the entanglement entropy (EE) and the R\'{e}nyi entropy (RE) of multiple intervals in two-dimensional $T\overline{T}$-deformed conformal field theory (CFT) at finite temperature by field theoretic and holographic methods. First, by…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-02-03 Hyun-Sik Jeong , Keun-Young Kim , Mitsuhiro Nishida

In this work, we explore holographic entanglement entropy in the QCD phase diagram under an external magnetic field using an Einstein-Maxwell-dilaton model. We consider both the specious-confinement and deconfined phases. In the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-19 Man-Man Sun , Man-Li Tian , Zhou-Run Zhu

Entanglement asymmetry is a measure of symmetry breaking in quantum subsystems, inspired by quantum information theory, particularly suited to study out-of-equilibrium states. We study the entanglement asymmetry of a class of excited…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-09-23 Francesco Benini , Victor Godet , Amartya Harsh Singh

Quantum phase transitions occur at zero temperature and involve the appearance of long-range correlations. These correlations are not due to thermal fluctuations but to the intricate structure of a strongly entangled ground state of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 G. Vidal , J. I. Latorre , E. Rico , A. Kitaev

We use gauge-gravity duality to compute entanglement entropy in a non-conformal background with an energy scale $\Lambda$. At zero temperature, we observe that entanglement entropy decreases by raising $\Lambda$. However, at finite…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-08-02 M. Rahimi , M. Ali-Akbari , M. Lezgi

We present a simple derivation of the entanglement entropy for a region made up of a union of disjoint intervals in 1+1 dimensional quantum field theories using holographic techniques. This generalizes the results for 1+1 dimensional…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Veronika E. Hubeny , Mukund Rangamani

Topological states of matter are characterized by nonlocal structures that are naturally encoded in the quantum entanglement of many-body wavefunctions. Topological semimetals are short-range entangled states at weak coupling and their…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-02-09 Xiantong Chen , Xuanting Ji , Ya-Wen Sun

The holographic representation of the entanglement entropy of four dimensional conformal field theories is studied. By generalizing the replica trick the anomalous terms in the entanglement entropy are evaluated. The same terms in the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 A. Schwimmer , S. Theisen

We study holographic entanglement entropy (HEE) of $m$ strips in various holographic theories. We prove that for $m$ strips with equal lengths and equal separations, there are only 2 bulk minimal surfaces. For backgrounds which contain also…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-22 Omer Ben-Ami , Dean Carmi , Jacob Sonnenschein

In this paper we investigate the influence of an external magnetic field on a flavoured holographic gauge theory dual to the D3/D5 intersection at finite temperature. Our study shows that the external magnetic field has a freezing effect on…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-04-30 Veselin G. Filev

An interface connecting two distinct conformal field theories hosts rich critical behaviors. In this work, we investigate the entanglement properties of such critical interface theories for probing the underlying universality. As inspired…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-01-10 Qicheng Tang , Zixia Wei , Yin Tang , Xueda Wen , W. Zhu

The phase structure of holographic entanglement entropy is studied in massive gravity for the quantum systems with finite and infinite volumes, which in the bulk is dual to calculate the minimal surface area for a black hole and black brane…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-11-30 Xiao-Xiong Zeng , Hongbao Zhang , Li-Fang Li

We compute the entanglement entropy and mutual information for two disjoint intervals in two-dimensional conformal field theories as a function of time after a local quench, using the replica trick and boundary conformal field theory. We…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-04-02 Curtis T. Asplund , Alice Bernamonti

We consider backreacted $AdS_5 \times S^5$ coupled with $N_f$ massless flavors introduced by D7-branes at non-zero temperature. The backreacted geometry is in the Veneziano limit. The temperature of this system is related to the event…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-04-04 Sen Hu , Guozhen Wu

We present the results of our studies of the entanglement entropy of a superconducting system described holographically as a fully back-reacted gravity system, with a stable ground state. We use the holographic prescription for the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-06-04 Tameem Albash , Clifford V. Johnson

We investigate the behaviors of entanglement entropy in the holographical insulator/superconductor phase transition. We calculate the holographic entanglement entropy for two kinds of geometry configurations in a completely back-reacted…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-12-17 Rong-Gen Cai , Song He , Li Li , Yun-Long Zhang

We show that the variation of the ground state entanglement in linear, higher spatial derivatives field theories at zero-temperature have signatures of phase transition. Around the critical point, when the dispersion relation changes from…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-12 Suman Ghosh , S. Shankaranarayanan

The BPS D3 brane has a non-supersymmetric cousin, called the non-susy D3 brane, which is also a solution of type IIB string theory. The corresponding counterpart of black D3 brane is the `black' non-susy D3 brane and like the BPS D3 brane,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-10-29 Aranya Bhattacharya , Shibaji Roy