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We study entanglement entropy (EE) in conformal field theories (CFTs) in Minkowski space with a planar boundary or with a planar defect of any codimension. In any such boundary CFT (BCFT) or defect CFT (DCFT), we consider the reduced…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-11-27 Kristan Jensen , Andy O'Bannon

In this paper we continue the study of renormalized entanglement entropy introduced in [1]. In particular, we investigate its behavior near an IR fixed point using holographic duality. We develop techniques which, for any static holographic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-17 Hong Liu , Márk Mezei

We establish the irreversibility of renormalization group flows on a pointlike defect inserted in a $d$-dimensional Lorentzian conformal field theory. We identify the impurity entropy $g$ with the quantum relative entropy in two equivalent…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-03-29 Horacio Casini , Ignacio Salazar Landea , Gonzalo Torroba

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 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 holographic methods to calculate the entanglement entropy for field theories modified by $T\bar{T}$ insertion. Based on the available holographic proposals, this calculation reduces to the holographic computations in AdS with…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-01-26 Kuroush Allameh , Amin Faraji Astaneh , Alireza Hassanzadeh

We study a surface defect in the free and critical $O(N)$ vector models, defined by adding a quadratic perturbation localized on a two-dimensional subspace of the $d$-dimensional CFT. We compute the beta function for the corresponding…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-12-05 Simone Giombi , Bowei Liu

In recent years, the holographic duality between $T\bar{T}$-deformed conformal field theory (CFT) and Anti-de Sitter (AdS) spacetime with finite radial cutoff has received significant attention. The study of $T\bar{T}$ deformation within…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-07-10 Jing-Cheng Chang , Song He , Yu-Xiao Liu , Long Zhao

Entanglement entropy plays a variety of roles in quantum field theory, including the connections between quantum states and gravitation through the holographic principle. This article provides a review of entanglement entropy from a mixed…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-12-30 Tatsuma Nishioka

We determine the universal part of pseudoentropy for small shape deformations of spherical entangling surfaces in the context of de Sitter/conformal field theory (dS/CFT) correspondence. The leading correction at quadratic order in the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-12-03 Giorgos Anastasiou , Ignacio J. Araya , Avijit Das , Javier Moreno

A conformal field theory (CFT) in dimension $d\geq 3$ coupled to a planar, two-dimensional, conformal defect is characterized in part by a "central charge" $b$ that multiplies the Euler density in the defect's Weyl anomaly. For defect…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-03-09 Kristan Jensen , Andy O'Bannon

In this work, we compute the defect relative entropy between topological defects in the symmetric product orbifold CFT $\mathrm{Sym}^N(M) = M^{\otimes N}/S_N$. Our analysis covers two distinct classes of defects: universal defects, which…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-04-21 Mostafa Ghasemi

We use the holographic method to investigate an RG flow and IR physics of a two-dimensional conformal field theory (CFT) deformed by a relevant scalar operator. On the dual gravity side, a renormalization group (RG) flow from a UV to IR CFT…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-12-11 Chanyong Park , Jung Hun Lee

In this paper, we study the entanglement entropy of a single interval on a cylinder in two-dimensional $T\overline{T}$-deformed conformal field theory. For such case, the (R\'enyi) entanglement entropy takes a universal form in a CFT. We…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-11-07 Bin Chen , Lin Chen , Peng-xiang Hao

Conformal defects describe the universal behaviors of a conformal field theory (CFT) in the presence of a boundary or more general impurities. The coupled critical system is characterized by new conformal anomalies which are analogous to,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-02-23 Yifan Wang

We investigate the emergence of locality in infrared (IR) physics, which indicates an asymmetric renormalization group (RG) flow from a $d$-dimensional ultraviolet (UV) conformal field theory (CFT) to a lower-dimensional IR effective…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-03-09 Chanyong Park

We explore entanglement entropy of a cap-like region for a generic quantum field theory residing in the Bunch-Davies vacuum on de Sitter space. Entanglement entropy in our setup is identical with the thermal entropy in the static patch of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-09-30 Omer Ben-Ami , Dean Carmi , Michael Smolkin

We derive a general formula for renormalized entanglement entropy in even dimensional CFTs holographically dual to Einstein gravity in one dimension higher. In order to renormalize, we adapt the Kounterterm method to asymptotically locally…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-01-08 Giorgos Anastasiou , Ignacio J. Araya , Alberto Guijosa , Rodrigo Olea

We re-examine holographic versions of the c-theorem and entanglement entropy in the context of higher curvature gravity and the AdS/CFT correspondence. We select the gravity theories by tuning the gravitational couplings to eliminate…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-02-22 Robert C. Myers , Aninda Sinha

We use the holographic proposal for calculating entanglement entropies to determine the boundary entropy of defects in strongly coupled two-dimensional conformal field theories. We study several examples including the Janus solution and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-12-15 Tatsuo Azeyanagi , Andreas Karch , Tadashi Takayanagi , Ethan G. Thompson