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In AdS/CFT we consider a class of bulk geometric quantities inside the entanglement wedge called reflected minimal surfaces. The areas of these surfaces are dual to the entanglement entropy associated to a canonical purification (the GNS…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-05-03 Souvik Dutta , Thomas Faulkner

This work explores the intersection of quantum mechanics and curved spacetime by employing the Wigner formalism to investigate quantum systems in the vicinity of black holes. Specifically, we study the quantum dynamics of a probe particle…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-21 David Garcia-Garcia , Jose A. R. Cembranos

We study modular theory in hyperfinite von Neumann algebras, i.e. in those of type II or type III, from the viewpoint of a subregion charge sector decomposition. We address this symmetry resolution by considering infinite tensor products of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-10-06 Giuseppe Di Giulio , Moritz Dorband , Johanna Erdmenger , Henri Scheppach

The entropy region is constructed from vectors of random variables by collecting Shannon entropies of all subvectors. Its shape is studied here by means of polymatroidal constructions, notably by convolution. The closure of the region is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-10-23 František Matúš , Lászlo Csirmaz

In this article, we explore the divergences and universal terms of the holographic entanglement entropy for singular regions in anisotropic and nonconformal theories that are holographically dual to geometries with a hyperscaling violation,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-10-25 Mostafa Ghasemi , Shahrokh Parvizi

Defining gravitational subsystems has long been challenging due to the lack of the conventional notion of locality in gravity. In this work, we define gravitational subsystems from the observable spacetime subregions of a set of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-12-13 Xin-Xiang Ju , Wen-Bin Pan , Ya-Wen Sun , Yuan-Tai Wang

We examine the equilibrium conditions of a curve in space when a local energy penalty is associated with its extrinsic geometrical state characterized by its curvature and torsion. To do this we tailor the theory of deformations to the…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2009-11-07 Riccardo Capovilla , Chryssomalis Chryssomalakos , Jemal Guven

The trace of integer powers of the local density matrix corresponding to the vacuum state reduced to a region V can be formally expressed in terms of a functional integral on a manifold with conical singularities. Recently, some progress…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-02-16 H. Casini , M. Huerta

We extend the recently developed discrete geometric singular perturbation theory to the non-normally hyperbolic regime. Our primary tool is the Takens embedding theorem, which provides a means of approximating the dynamics of particular…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2024-08-13 Samuel Jelbart , Christian Kuehn

In the framework of Algebraic Quantum Field Theory, several operator algebraic notions of entanglement entropy can be associated with any pair of causally disjoint spacetime regions $\mathcal{S}_A$ and $\mathcal{S}_B$ with positive relative…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-28 Lorenzo Panebianco , Benedikt Wegener

We consider the gravity dual of the modular Hamiltonian associated to a general subregion of a boundary theory. We use it to argue that the relative entropy of nearby states is given by the relative entropy in the bulk, to leading order in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-06-29 Daniel L. Jafferis , Aitor Lewkowycz , Juan Maldacena , S. Josephine Suh

We derive the holographic entanglement entropy functional for a generic gravitational theory whose action contains terms up to cubic order in the Riemann tensor, and in any dimension. This is the simplest case for which the so-called…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-01-11 Elena Cáceres , Rodrigo Castillo Vásquez , Alejandro Vilar López

Standard subspaces are closed real subspaces of a complex Hilbert space that appear naturally in Tomita-Takesaki modular theory and its applications to quantum field theory. In this article, inclusions of standard subspaces are studied…

Operator Algebras · Mathematics 2025-06-23 Ricardo Correa da Silva , Gandalf Lechner

Regulated Lorentz invariant quantum field theories satisfy an area law for the entanglement entropy $S$ of a spatial subregion in the ground state in $d>1$ spatial dimensions; nevertheless, the full density matrix contains many more than…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-04-25 Brian Swingle

We propose entanglement entropy as a probe of the architecture of spacetime in quantum gravity. We argue that the leading contribution to this entropy satisfies an area law for any sufficiently large region in a smooth spacetime, which, in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-12-21 Eugenio Bianchi , Robert C. Myers

In the framework of double holography, we investigate the entanglement behavior of a brane subregion in AdS spacetime coupled to a bath on its boundary and also extract the contribution from the quantum matter within this subregion. From…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-12-14 Yuxuan Liu , Qian Chen , Yi Ling , Cheng Peng , Yu Tian , Zhuo-Yu Xian

We revisit the connection between index and relative entropy for an inclusion of finite von Neumann algebras. We observe that the Pimsner-Popa index connects to sandwiched Renyi $p$-relative entropy for all $1/2\le p\le \infty$, including…

Operator Algebras · Mathematics 2020-11-17 Li Gao , Marius Junge , Nicholas LaRacuente

We evaluate the relative entropy on a ball region near the UV fixed point of a holographic conformal field theory deformed by a fermionic operator of nonzero vacuum expectation value. The positivity of the relative entropy considered here…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-10-28 Feng-Li Lin , Bo Ning

We show that the average trajectories of relativistic quantum particles in Schwarzschild spacetime, obtained via quantum mechanical weak measurements of momentum and energy, are equivalent to the predicted flow lines of probability current…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-20 Joshua Foo , Cameron Bellamy , Timothy C. Ralph

We compute the vacuum local modular Hamiltonian associated with a space ball region in the free scalar massless Quantum Field Theory. We give an explicit expression on the one particle Hilbert space in terms of the higher dimensional…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2022-09-26 Roberto Longo , Gerardo Morsella