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When a quantum system is divided into subsystems, their entanglement entropies are subject to an inequality known as "strong subadditivity". For a field theory this inequality can be stated as follows: given any two regions of space $A$ and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Matthew Headrick , Tadashi Takayanagi

In this Letter we prove a simple theorem in quantum information theory, which implies that bulk operators in the Anti-de Sitter / Conformal Field Theory (AdS/CFT) correspondence can be reconstructed as CFT operators in a spatial subregion…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-07-14 Xi Dong , Daniel Harlow , Aron C. Wall

A longstanding question in quantum gravity regards the localization of quantum information; one way to formulate this question is to ask how subsystems can be defined in quantum-gravitational systems. The gauge symmetry and necessity of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-09-07 Steven B. Giddings

We consider generalized gravitational entropy in various higher derivative theories of gravity dual to four dimensional CFTs using the recently proposed regularization of squashed cones. We derive the universal terms in the entanglement…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-17 Arpan Bhattacharyya , Menika Sharma , Aninda Sinha

In holographic theories, the reflected entropy has been shown to be dual to the area of the entanglement wedge cross section. We study the same problem in random tensor networks demonstrating an equivalent duality. For a single random…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-10-18 Chris Akers , Thomas Faulkner , Simon Lin , Pratik Rath

Recently, Bousso and Penington (BP) made a proposal for the entanglement wedge associated to a gravitating bulk region. In this paper, we derive this proposal in time-reflection symmetric settings using the gravitational path integral. To…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-08-27 Sami Kaya , Pratik Rath , Kyle Ritchie

We consider the AdS_2/CFT_1 holographic correspondence near the horizon of rotating five-dimensional black holes preserving four supersymmetries in N=2 supergravity. The bulk partition function is given by a functional integral over string…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-02-04 Joao Gomes

We compute entanglement entropy (EE) of a spherical region in $(3+1)$-dimensional $\mathcal{N}=4$ supersymmetric $SU(N)$ Yang-Mills theory in states described holographically by probe D3-branes in $AdS_5 \times S^5$. We do so by…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-05-05 Adam Chalabi , S. Prem Kumar , Andy O'Bannon , Anton Pribytok , Ronnie Rodgers , Jacopo Sisti

Tensor networks are useful toy models for understanding the structure of entanglement in holographic states and reconstruction of bulk operators within the entanglement wedge. They are, however, constrained to only prepare so-called…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-09-13 Xi Dong , Sean McBride , Wayne W. Weng

A generic spacetime topology contains timelike boundaries. Making use of two such boundaries, we formulate a microscopic holographic dual that captures cosmological spacetime beyond the cosmic horizon patch, including the future wedge. We…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-04-14 Batoul Banihashemi , Gauri Batra , Albert Y. T. Law , Eva Silverstein , Gonzalo Torroba

We formulate confinement in QCD as an entropic surface phenomenon. Quark and gluon quantum information is localized on a transverse entangling two-sphere of radius $R_{EE}$; at this radius the QCD vacuum -- partitioned by a hadron into…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-12-19 Kiminad A. Mamo

The area law conjecture states that the entanglement entropy of a region of space in the ground state of a gapped, local Hamiltonian only grows like the surface area of the region. We show that, for any quantum state that fulfills an area…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-05-22 Henrik Wilming , Jens Eisert

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

According to Ryu and Takayanagi, the entanglement entropy in conformal field theory (CFT) is related through the AdS/CFT correspondence to the area of a minimal surface in the bulk. We study this holographic geometrical method of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-07-18 Pavel Krtous , Andrei Zelnikov

Random tensor networks (RTNs) have proved to be fruitful tools for modelling the AdS/CFT correspondence. Due to their flat entanglement spectra, when discussing a given boundary region $R$ and its complement $\bar R$, standard RTNs are most…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-01-08 Jesse Held , Molly Kaplan , Donald Marolf , Jie-qiang Wu

We give a new proof for the area law for general 1D gapped systems, which exponentially improves Hastings' famous result \cite{ref:Has07}. Specifically, we show that for a chain of d-dimensional spins, governed by a 1D local Hamiltonian…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-01-08 Itai Arad , Alexei Kitaev , Zeph Landau , Umesh Vazirani

An asymptotically AdS geometry connecting two or more boundaries is given by a entangled state, that can be expanded in the product basis of the Hilbert spaces of each CFT living on the boundaries. We derive a prescription to compute this…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-08-16 Marcelo Botta Cantcheff

In a full theory of quantum gravity, local physics is expected to be approximate rather than innate. It is therefore important to understand how approximate locality emerges in the semiclassical limit. Here we show that any notion of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-11-09 Netta Engelhardt , Sebastian Fischetti

We use holographic duality to study the entanglement entropy (EE) of Conformal Field Theories (CFTs) in various spacetime dimensions $d$, in the presence of various deformations: a relevant Lorentz scalar operator with constant source, a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-11-22 Nikola I. Gushterov , Andy O'Bannon , Ronnie Rodgers

We use the framework of generalized entanglement wedges to revisit the connected wedge theorem (CWT). This construction identifies an entanglement wedge associated for any bulk region and allows us to rephrase the CWT in terms of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-04-27 Athira Arayath , Sabrina Pasterski