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Relative entropy serves as a fundamental measure of state distinguishability in both quantum information theory and relativistic quantum field theory. Despite its conceptual importance, however, explicit computations of relative entropy…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-01 Daniela Cadamuro , Markus B. Fröb , Dimitrios Katsinis , Jan Mandrysch

The von Neumann entropy of a $k$-body reduced density matrix $\gamma_k$ quantifies the entanglement between $k$ quantum particles and the remaining ones. In this short paper, we rigorously prove general properties of this entanglement…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-12-17 Marius Lemm

We present a direct comparison of the recently-proposed valence bond entanglement entropy and the von Neumann entanglement entropy on spin 1/2 Heisenberg systems using quantum Monte Carlo and density-matrix renormalization group…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-09-14 Ann B. Kallin , Ivan Gonzalez , Matthew B. Hastings , Roger G. Melko

Consider an arbitrary local quantum field theory with a gap or an arbitrary gapless free theory. We consider states in such a theory, that describe two entangled particles localized in disjoint regions of space. We show that in such a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-09-13 Swapnamay Mondal

We compute the von Neumann and generalized R\'{e}nyi entanglement entropies in the ground-state of the spin-1/2 antiferromagnetic Heisenberg model on the square lattice using the modified spin-wave theory for finite lattices. The addition…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2011-07-06 H. Francis Song , Nicolas Laflorencie , Stephan Rachel , Karyn Le Hur

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

We show that the sectional curvature of a Riemannian manifold is nonnegative if, and only if, the entropy functional is matrix displacement convex. As an application we obtain intrinsic dimensional evolution variational inequalities, and…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-09-30 Gautam Aishwarya , Liran Rotem , Yair Shenfeld

We consider the quantum state seen by an observer in the diamond-shaped region, which is a globally hyperbolic open submanifold of the Minkowski space-time. It is known from the operator-algebraic argument that the vacuum state of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-06-21 Daisuke Ida , Takahiro Okamoto , Miyuki Saito

We consider entanglement entropy between regions of space in lattice gauge theory. The Hilbert space corresponding to a region of space includes edge states that transform nontrivially under gauge transformations. By decomposing the edge…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-04-27 William Donnelly

We introduce a subsystem generalization of the spectral form factor via pseudo entropy, the von-Neumann entropy for the reduced transition matrix. We consider a transition matrix between the thermofield double state and its time-evolved…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-12-22 Kanato Goto , Masahiro Nozaki , Kotaro Tamaoka

In this paper, we derive a new generalisation of the strong subadditivity of the entropy to the setting of general conditional expectations onto arbitrary finite-dimensional von Neumann algebras. The latter inequality, which we call…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-08-03 Ivan Bardet , Angela Capel , Cambyse Rouzé

We show that groups with a mild form of non-positive curvature (a navigable path system) satisfy the weak rank rigidity conjecture: they either have linear divergence or a Morse element. This class includes discrete groups of projective…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2026-05-29 Cornelia Drutu , Davide Spriano , Stefanie Zbinden

We provide a rigorous, explicit formula for the vacuum relative entropy of a coherent state on wedge local von Neumann algebras associated with a free, neutral quantum field theory on the Minkowski spacetime of arbitrary spacetime…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-07-24 Roberto Longo

We make a rigorous computation of the relative entropy between the vacuum state and a coherent state for a free scalar in the framework of AQFT. We study the case of the Rindler Wedge. Previous calculations including path integral methods…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-01-30 Horacio Casini , Sergio Grillo , Diego Pontello

We use a mix of field theoretic and holographic techniques to elucidate various properties of quantum entanglement entropy. In (3+1)-dimensional conformal field theory we study the divergent terms in the entropy when the entangling surface…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-07-13 Igor R. Klebanov , Tatsuma Nishioka , Silviu S. Pufu , Benjamin R. Safdi

The holographic principle and the thermodynamics of de Sitter space suggest that the total number of fundamental degrees of freedom associated with any finite-volume region of space may be finite. The naive picture of a short distance…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 Federico Piazza

The valence-bond structure of spin-1/2 Heisenberg antiferromagnets is closely related to quantum entanglement. We investigate measures of entanglement entropy based on transition graphs, which characterize state overlaps in the overcomplete…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2010-12-27 Yu-Cheng Lin , Anders W. Sandvik

Starting from a real standard subspace of a Hilbert space and a representation of the translation group with natural properties, we construct and analyze for each endomorphism of this pair a local, translationally covariant net of standard…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 Gandalf Lechner , Roberto Longo

We study the geodesic convexity of various energy and entropy functionals restricted to (non-geodesically convex) submanifolds of Wasserstein spaces with their induced geometry. We prove a variety of convexity results by means of a simple…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-08-22 Louis-Pierre Chaintron , Daniel Lacker

The Entropic Dynamics reconstruction of quantum mechanics is extended to quantum field theory in curved space-time. The Entropic Dynamics framework, which derives quantum theory as an application of the method of maximum entropy, is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-01-08 Selman Ipek , Mohammad Abedi , Ariel Caticha