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We prove several geometric theorems using tools from the theory of convex optimization. In the Riemannian setting, we prove the max flow-min cut theorem for boundary regions, applied recently to develop a "bit-thread" interpretation of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-08-23 Matthew Headrick , Veronika E. Hubeny

The concept of the generalized entanglement wedge was recently proposed by Bousso and Penington, which states that any bulk gravitational region $a$ possesses an associated generalized entanglement wedge $E(a)\supset a$ on a static Cauchy…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-08-16 Dong-Hui Du , Jia-Rui Sun

We consider entanglement entropy in the context of gauge/gravity duality for conformal field theories in even dimensions. The holographic prescription due to Ryu and Takayanagi (RT) leads to an equation describing how the entangling surface…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-15 Arpan Bhattacharyya , Aninda Sinha

We introduce a description of a minimal surface in a space with boundary, as the world-hypersurface that the entangling surface traces. It does so by evolving from the boundary to the interior of the bulk under an appropriate geometric…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-04-22 Dimitrios Katsinis , Ioannis Mitsoulas , Georgios Pastras

We study the entanglement contour, a quasi-local measure of entanglement, and propose a generic formula for the contour in 1+1d quantum systems. We use this formalism to investigate the real space entanglement structure of various static…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-07-18 Jonah Kudler-Flam , Ian MacCormack , Shinsei Ryu

The Ryu-Takayanagi prescription can be cast in terms of a set of microscopic threads that help visualize holographic entanglement in terms of distillation of EPR pairs. While this framework has been exploited for regions with a high degree…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-09-15 Umut Gürsoy , Juan F. Pedraza , Guim Planella Planas

In this paper, we introduce two bounds which we call the Upper Differential Entropy and the Lower Differential Entropy for an infinite family of intervals(strips) in quantum field theory. The two bounds are equal provided that the theory is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-10-01 Bin Chen , Jiang Long

Bit threads are curves in holographic spacetimes that manifest boundary entanglement, and are represented mathematically by continuum analogues of network flows or multiflows. Subject to a density bound, the maximum number of threads…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-08-10 Matthew Headrick , Jesse Held , Joel Herman

The Ryu-Takayanagi conjecture establishes a remarkable connection between quantum systems and geometry. Specifically, it relates the entanglement entropy to minimal surfaces within the setting of AdS/CFT correspondence. This Letter shows…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-03-14 Stefan Kehrein

We apply the bit thread formulation of holographic entanglement entropy to reduced states describing only the geometry contained within an entanglement wedge. We argue that a certain optimized bit thread configuration, which we construct,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-08-01 Ning Bao , Aidan Chatwin-Davies , Jason Pollack , Grant N. Remmen

We give a scheme to geometrize the partial entanglement entropy (PEE) for holographic CFT in the context of AdS/CFT. More explicitly, given a point $\textbf{x}$ we geometrize the two-point PEEs between $\textbf{x}$ and any other points in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-03-11 Jiong Lin , Yizhou Lu , Qiang Wen

It is suggested that quantum entanglement emerges from the holographic principle stating that all of the information of a region (bulk bits) can be described by the bits on its boundary surface. There are redundancy and information loss in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-10-29 Jae-Weon Lee

Recently it has been proposed that the Bekenstein-Hawking formula for the entropy of spacetime horizons has a larger significance as the leading contribution to the entanglement entropy of general spacetime regions, in the underlying…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-08-27 Jason Wien

Recently, it has been shown by Balasubramanian et al. and Myers et al. that the Bekenstein-Hawking entropy formula evaluated on certain closed surfaces in the bulk of a holographic spacetime has an interpretation as the differential entropy…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-22 Matthew Headrick , Robert C. Myers , Jason Wien

The holographic bit threads are an insightful tool to investigate the holographic entanglement entropy and other quantities related to the bipartite entanglement in AdS/CFT. We mainly explore the geodesic bit threads in various static…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-09-04 Stefania Caggioli , Francesco Gentile , Domenico Seminara , Erik Tonni

Holographic duality describes gravitational theories in terms of quantum many-body systems. In holography, quantum information theory provides a crucial tool that directly connects microscopic structures of these systems to the geometries…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-06-24 Tadashi Takayanagi

We formulate a quantum generalization of maximin surfaces and show that a quantum maximin surface is identical to the minimal quantum extremal surface, introduced in the EW prescription. We discuss various subtleties and complications…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-07-16 Chris Akers , Netta Engelhardt , Geoff Penington , Mykhaylo Usatyuk

In this paper, we study the holographic quantum entanglement structure in the finite-temperature CFT state/planar BTZ black hole correspondence from the perspective of entanglement threads. Unlike previous studies based on bit threads,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-09-15 Yi-Yu Lin , Dong-Yu Fang , Jie-Chen Jin , Chen-Ye Li

The classical max-flow min-cut theorem describes transport through certain idealized classical networks. We consider the quantum analog for tensor networks. By associating an integral capacity to each edge and a tensor to each vertex in a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-07-01 Shawn X. Cui , Michael H. Freedman , Or Sattath , Richard Stong , Greg Minton

We provide a gravitational argument in favour of the covariant holographic entanglement entropy proposal. In general time-dependent states, the proposal asserts that the entanglement entropy of a region in the boundary field theory is given…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-11-22 Xi Dong , Aitor Lewkowycz , Mukund Rangamani