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We prove a version of the data-processing inequality for the relative entropy for general von Neumann algebras with an explicit lower bound involving the measured relative entropy. The inequality, which generalizes previous work by Sutter…

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We discuss high energy properties of states for (possibly interacting) quantum fields in curved spacetimes. In particular, if the spacetime is real analytic, we show that an analogue of the timelike tube theorem and the Reeh-Schlieder…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-01-24 Alexander Strohmaier , Edward Witten

We consider entanglement across a planar boundary in flat space. Entanglement entropy is usually thought of as the von Neumann entropy of a reduced density matrix, but it can also be thought of as half the von Neumann entropy of a product…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-04-20 Takanori Anegawa , Norihiro Iizuka , Daniel Kabat

We review recent developments in the use of von Neumann algebras to analyze the entanglement structure of quantum gravity and the emergence of spacetime in the semi-classical limit. Von Neumann algebras provide a natural framework for…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-10-09 Hong Liu

We consider quantum algebras of observables associated with subregions in theories of Einstein gravity coupled to matter in the $G_N\rightarrow 0$ limit. When the subregion is spatially compact or encompasses an asymptotic boundary, we…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-02-07 Kristan Jensen , Jonathan Sorce , Antony Speranza

The entanglement entropy associated with a spatial boundary in quantum field theory is UV divergent, with the leading term proportional to the area of the boundary. For a class of quantum states defined by a path integral, the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-12-23 Joshua H. Cooperman , Markus A. Luty

The entanglement entropy of a pure quantum state of a bipartite system is defined as the von Neumann entropy of the reduced density matrix obtained by tracing over one of the two parts. Critical ground states of local Hamiltonians in one…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-09-08 Eduardo Fradkin

The non-factorizing nature of the Hilbert space in Loop Quantum Gravity (LQG) due to gauge invariance requires a generalized definition of entanglement entropy. This work employs the framework of von Neumann algebras to investigate the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-04 Muxin Han

We show, using strong subadditivity and Lorentz covariance, that in three dimensional space-time the entanglement entropy of a circle is a concave function. This implies the decrease of the coefficient of the area term and the increase of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-05-30 H. Casini , Marina Huerta

The entanglement entropy of a pure quantum state of a bipartite system $A \cup B$ is defined as the von Neumann entropy of the reduced density matrix obtained by tracing over one of the two parts. Critical ground states of local…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2008-11-26 Eduardo Fradkin , Joel E. Moore

We study relative entropy in QFT, comparing the vacuum state to a special family of purifications determined by an input state and constructed using relative modular flow. We use this to prove a conjecture by Wall that relates the shape…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-03-22 Fikret Ceyhan , Thomas Faulkner

We prove local Poincar\'e inequalities under various curvature-dimension conditions which are stable under the measured Gromov-Hausdorff convergence. The first class of spaces we consider is that of weak CD(K,N) spaces as defined by Lott…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-07-26 Tapio Rajala

Minimal and maximal uncertainties of position measurements are widely considered possible hallmarks of low-energy quantum as well as classical gravity. While General Relativity describes interactions in terms of spatial curvature, its…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-03-23 Fabian Wagner

We introduce for SU(2) quantum spin systems the Valence Bond Entanglement Entropy as a counting of valence bond spin singlets shared by two subsystems. For a large class of antiferromagnetic systems, it can be calculated in all dimensions…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-13 Fabien Alet , Sylvain Capponi , Nicolas Laflorencie , Matthieu Mambrini

The variance conjecture in Asymptotic Convex Geometry stipulates that the Euclidean norm of a random vector uniformly distributed in a (properly normalised) high-dimensional convex body $K\subset {\mathbb R}^n$ satisfies a Poincar\'e-type…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2018-05-09 Beatrice-Helen Vritsiou

Exploiting the split property of quantum field theories (QFTs), a notion of von Neumann entropy associated to pairs of spatial subregions has been recently proposed both in the holographic context -- where it has been argued to be related…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-02-17 Pablo Bueno , Horacio Casini

The density matrix is a positive semidefinite operator of trace 1 characterizing the state of a quantum system. We consider the inverse problem to reconstruct such density matrices from indirect measurements, also known as quantum state…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-06 Florian Oberender , Thorsten Hohage

Relations among von Neumann entropies of different parts of an $N$-partite quantum system have direct impact on our understanding of diverse situations ranging from spin systems to quantum coding theory and black holes. Best formulated in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-01-03 Matthias Christandl , Bergfinnur Durhuus , Lasse Harboe Wolff

In a 1+1 dimensional QFT on a circle, we consider the von Neumann entanglement entropy of an interval for typical pure states. As a function of the interval size, we expect a Page curve in the entropy. We employ a specific ensemble average…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-01-05 Erez Y. Urbach

Power-law uniform (in the operator norm) convergence on vector subspaces with their own norms in von Neumann's ergodic theorem with continuous time is considered. All possible exponents of the considered power-law convergence are found; for…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2023-02-28 A. G. Kachurovskii , I. V. Podvigin , V. E. Todikov