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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

We introduce a quantity, called pseudo entropy, as a generalization of entanglement entropy via post-selection. In the AdS/CFT correspondence, this quantity is dual to areas of minimal area surfaces in time-dependent Euclidean spaces which…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-01-27 Yoshifumi Nakata , Tadashi Takayanagi , Yusuke Taki , Kotaro Tamaoka , Zixia Wei

We study the properties of pseudo entropy, a new generalization of entanglement entropy, in free Maxwell field theory in $d = 4$ dimension. We prepare excited states by the different components of the field strengths located at different…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-10-19 Jyotirmoy Mukherjee

Pseudo-entropy and SVD entropy are generalizations of the entanglement entropy that involve post-selection. In this work we analyze their properties as measures on the spaces of quantum states and argue that their excess provides useful…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-02-25 Pawel Caputa , Souradeep Purkayastha , Abhigyan Saha , Piotr Sułkowski

A scalar field in the ground state, when partially hidden from observation by a spherical boundary, acquires entanglement entropy $S$ proportional to the area of the surface. This area law is well established in flat space, where it follows…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-10-01 Katja Ried

We study pseudo entropy for a particular linear combination of entangled states in qubit systems, two-dimensional free conformal field theories (CFT), and two-dimensional holographic CFT. We observe phenomena that the pseudo entropy can be…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-06-30 Yutaka Ishiyama , Riku Kojima , Sho Matsui , Kotaro Tamaoka

A general geometrical structure of the entanglement entropy for spatial partition of a relativistic QFT system is established by using methods of the effective gravity action and the spectral geometry. A special attention is payed to the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Dmitri V. Fursaev

Quantum informatic quantities such as entanglement entropy are useful in detecting quantum phase transitions. Recently, a new entanglement measure called pseudo-entropy was proposed which is a generalization of the more well-known…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-09-23 Song He , Pak Hang Chris Lau , Long Zhao

We discuss the behavior of the entanglement entropy of the ground state in various collective systems. Results for general quadratic two-mode boson models are given, yielding the relation between quantum phase transitions of the system…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-02-16 J. Vidal , S. Dusuel , T. Barthel

In classical physics, entropy quantifies the randomness of large systems, where the complete specification of the state, though possible in theory, is not possible in practice. In quantum physics, despite its inherently probabilistic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-09-28 Davi Geiger , Zvi Kedem

The pseudo entropy is a promising recent generalization of the entanglement entropy to the situations in which both the initial and final state are involved, with the density matrix promoted to the transition matrix. However, in contrast to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-06-02 Zhou Chen

We compute the pseudo entropy in two-dimensional holographic and free Dirac fermion CFTs for excited states under joining local quenches. Our analysis reveals two of its characteristic properties that are missing in the conventional…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-02-20 Kotaro Shinmyo , Tadashi Takayanagi , Kenya Tasuki

In this work, we study the real-time evolution of pseudo-(R\'enyi) entropy, a generalization of entanglement entropy, in two-dimensional conformal field theories (CFTs). We focus on states obtained by acting primary operators located at…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-09-28 Wu-zhong Guo , Song He , Yu-Xuan Zhang

We compare the holographic timelike entanglement entropy with the pseudo-entropy arising from a two-qubit quantum mechanical system. In this model, we consider transitions from an initial thermal state to a final thermal state at fixed…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-02-25 M. Ali-Akbari

We study holographic entanglement entropy in dS/CFT and introduce time-like entanglement entropy in CFTs. Both of them take complex values in general and are related with each other via an analytical continuation. We argue that they are…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-02-01 Kazuki Doi , Jonathan Harper , Ali Mollabashi , Tadashi Takayanagi , Yusuke Taki

The concept of entanglement entropy appears in multiple contexts, from black hole physics to quantum information theory, where it measures the entanglement of quantum states. We investigate the entanglement entropy in a simple model, the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Karyn Le Hur

We study the entanglement entropy within a spherical region for a free scalar field in a squeezed state in 3+1 dimensions. We show that, even for small squeezing, a volume term appears, whose coefficient is essentially independent of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-10-28 Dimitrios Katsinis , Georgios Pastras , Nikolaos Tetradis

Following arXiv:2210.12963 [hep-th], we investigate aspects of the time evolution operator regarded as a density operator and associated entanglement-like structures in various quantum systems. These involve timelike separations and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-04-29 K. Narayan , Hitesh K. Saini

The entanglement entropy in a quantum field theory between two regions of space has been shown in simple cases to be proportional to the volume of the hypersurface separating the regions. We prove that this is true for a free scalar field…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Micheal S. Berger , Roman V. Buniy

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
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