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We evaluate reflected entropy in certain anisotropic boundary theories dual to nonrelativistic geometries using holography. It is proposed that this quantity is proportional to the minimal area of the entanglement wedge cross section. Using…

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In the AdS/CFT correspondence, it is often convenient to regulate infinite quantities in asymptotically anti-de Sitter spacetimes by introducing a sharp cutoff in a radial coordinate. This procedure is a priori coordinate-dependent, and may…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-10-18 Jonathan Sorce

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

The time evolution of entanglement entropy in generic chaotic many-body systems has an effective description in terms of a minimal membrane, characterised by a tension function. For 2d CFTs, a degenerate tension function reproduces several…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-11-26 Hanzhi Jiang , Márk Mezei , Julio Virrueta

In this paper, we compute the exact form of the bulk geometry emerging from a $(1+1)$-dimensional conformal field theory using the holographic principle. We first consider the $(2+1)$-dimensional asymptotic $AdS$ metric in Poincare…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-02-03 Ashis Saha , Sourav Karar , Sunandan Gangopadhyay

We construct localized states defined in a ball or the half-space of a conformal field theory (CFT) in Minkowski that are thermal with respect to the local modular flow. We compute their energy density at arbitrary temperature for a variety…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-11-06 Felipe Rosso

In this paper, we introduce topological entropy for dynamical systems generated by a single local homeomorphism (Deaconu-Renault systems). More precisely, we generalize Adler, Konheim, and McAndrew's definition of entropy via covers and…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2023-01-25 Daniel Gonçalves , Danilo Royer , Felipe Augusto Tasca

An entanglement Renyi entropy for a spatial partition of a system is studied in conformal theories which admit a dual description in terms of an anti-de Sitter gravity. The divergent part of the Renyi entropy is computed in 4D conformal N=4…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-03 Dmitri V. Fursaev

We study entanglement properties of systems with spontaneously broken continuous symmetry. We find that in addition to the expected area law behavior, the entanglement entropy contains a subleading contribution which diverges…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-01-09 Max A. Metlitski , Tarun Grover

The entanglement entropy of intervals in $1+1$ interface CFTs is modified in two ways compared to a CFT without interface: there is a finite boundary entropy contribution, and, for an interval with an endpoint at the interface, the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-01 Evangelos Afxonidis , Ignacio Carreño Bolla , Carlos Hoyos , Andreas Karch

Every renormalization group flow in $d$ spacetime dimensions can be equivalently described as spectral deformations of a generalized free CFT in $(d-1)$ spacetime dimensions. This can be achieved by studying the effective action of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-07-10 Sandipan Kundu

We provide a comprehensive overview of the current status of higher-codimension defect systems. We review the holographic description and field theoretic properties of codimension-2 defects within the framework of defect Conformal Field…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-15 George Georgiou , Dimitrios Zoakos

We compute change in entanglement entropy for a single interval in $1+1$ dimensional sine-Gordon model perturbatively in the coupling. The sine-Gordon perturbation can be thought of as deformation of the free CFT by a primary operator with…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-12-29 Pinaki Banerjee , Atanu Bhatta , B. Sathiapalan

In this thesis, we study a variety of phenomena in strongly coupled quantum field theories by performing calculations in their gravitational duals. We compute entanglement entropy in a variety of holographic systems, paying particular…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-12-23 Ronnie Rodgers

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

We investigate the monotonicity of the renormalization group (RG) flow from the perspectives of nonequilibrium thermodynamics. Applying the Martin-Siggia-Rose formalism to the Wilsonian RG transformation, we incorporate the RG flow…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-12-29 Ki-Seok Kim , Shinsei Ryu

The quantum Ising chain of length, L, which is separated into two parts by localized or extended defects is considered at the critical point where scaling of the interface magnetization is non-universal. We measure the entanglement entropy…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-05-29 Ferenc Iglói , Zsolt Szatmári , Yu-Cheng Lin

We study three-dimensional gravity with negative cosmological constant under non-standard boundary conditions where chemical potentials are determined dynamically. Using a boundary Hamiltonian inspired by collective field theory (ColFT),…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-08-05 Suvankar Dutta , Shruti Menon , Aayush Srivastav

It is well-known that the entanglement entropies for spacelike subregions, and the associated modular Hamiltonians play a crucial role in the bulk reconstruction program within Anti de-Sitter (AdS) holography. Explicit examples of HKLL map…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-03-12 Avijit Das , Shivrat Sachdeva , Debajyoti Sarkar

Approximate functionals used in practical density functional theory (DFT) deviate from the piecewise linear behavior of the exact functional for fractional charges. This deviation causes excess charge delocalization, which leads to…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2018-10-23 Diptarka Hait , Martin Head-Gordon