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We consider the entanglement entropies in dS$_d$ sliced (A)dS$_{d+1}$ in the presence of a hard radial cutoff for $2\le d\le 6$. By considering a one parameter family of analytical solutions, parametrized by their turning point in the bulk…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-12-09 Sebastian Grieninger

Quantities computed by minimal cuts, such as entanglement entropies achievable by the Ryu-Takayanagi proposal in the AdS/CFT correspondence, are constrained by linear inequalities. We prove a previously conjectured property of all such…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-02-10 Bartlomiej Czech , Yichen Feng , Xianlai Wu , Minjun Xie

We study universal features in the shape dependence of entanglement entropy in the vacuum state of a conformal field theory (CFT) on $\mathbb{R}^{1,d-1}$. We consider the entanglement entropy across a deformed planar or spherical entangling…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-04-22 Thomas Faulkner , Robert G. Leigh , Onkar Parrikar

Charged and symmetry-resolved R\'enyi entropies are entanglement measures quantifying the degree of entanglement within different charge sectors of a theory with a conserved global charge. We use holography to determine the dependence of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-07-12 Stefano Baiguera , Lorenzo Bianchi , Shira Chapman , Damián A. Galante

We extend our topological renormalization scheme for Entanglement Entropy to holographic CFTs of arbitrary odd dimensions in the context of the AdS/CFT correspondence. The procedure consists in adding the Chern form as a boundary term to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-05-30 Giorgos Anastasiou , Ignacio J. Araya , Rodrigo Olea

Using holographic entanglement entropy for strip geometry, we construct a candidate for a c-function in arbitrary dimensions. For holographic theories dual to Einstein gravity, this c-function is shown to decrease monotonically along RG…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-04 Robert C. Myers , Ajay Singh

We calculate entanglement and impurity entropies in a recent holographic model of a magnetic impurity interacting with a strongly coupled system. There is an RG flow to an IR fixed point where the impurity is screened, leading to a decrease…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-02-05 Johanna Erdmenger , Mario Flory , Carlos Hoyos , Max-Niklas Newrzella , Jackson M. S. Wu

Using six-dimensional Euclidean $F(4)$ gauged supergravity we construct a holographic renormalization group flow for a CFT on $S^5$. Numerical solutions to the BPS equations are obtained and the free energy of the theory on $S^5$ is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-04-04 Michael Gutperle , Justin Kaidi , Himanshu Raj

In this work, we study the holographic entanglement entropy in AdS$_3$ gravity with the certain mixed boundary condition, which turns out to correspond to $T\bar{T}$-deformed 2D CFTs. By employing the Chern-Simons formalism and Wilson line…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-05-09 Miao He , Yuan Sun

The vacuum entanglement entropy of a general conformal field theory (CFT) in $d=5$ spacetime dimensions contains a universal term, $F(A)$, which has a complicated and non-local dependence on the geometric details of the region $A$ and the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-01-03 Giorgos Anastasiou , Ignacio J. Araya , Pablo Bueno , Javier Moreno , Rodrigo Olea , Alejandro Vilar Lopez

We study the entanglement entropy associated with a holographic RG flow from $\textrm{AdS}_7$ to $\textrm{AdS}_{4} \times \mathbb{H}_3$, where $\mathbb{H}_3$ is a $3$-dimensional hyperbolic manifold with curvature $\kappa$. The dual…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-08-22 José de-la-Cruz-Moreno , James T. Liu , Leopoldo A. Pando Zayas

We consider the entanglement entropy for the 2D Ising model at the conformal fixed point in the presence of interfaces. More precisely, we investigate the situation where the two subsystems are separated by a defect line that preserves…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-25 Enrico M. Brehm , Ilka Brunner

Density functional theory (DFT) has become a standard tool for the study of point defects in materials. However, finding the most stable defective structures remains a very challenging task as it involves the solution of a multimodal…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-11-16 Marco Arrigoni , Georg K. H. Madsen

We study the $T\bar T$ deformation of boundary conformal field theories (BCFTs) from an intrinsic field-theoretic perspective. Formulating the deformation as a modification of the asymptotic variational principle in AdS$_3$, we obtain the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-01-30 Feiyu Deng

We use holography in order to study the entropy of thermal CFTs on (1+1)-dimensional curved backgrounds that contain horizons. Starting from the metric of the BTZ black hole, we perform explicit coordinate transformations that set the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-09-29 Dimitrios Giataganas , Nikolaos Tetradis

We revisit the existence of monotonic quantities along renormalization group flows using only the Null Energy Condition and the Ryu-Takayanagi formula for the entanglement entropy of field theories with anti-de Sitter gravity duals. In…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-09-27 Evan Deddo , James T. Liu , Leopoldo A. Pando Zayas , Robert J. Saskowski

In a $d$-dimensional conformal field theory, it has been known that a relevant deformation operator with the conformal dimension, $\Delta=\frac{d+2}{2}$, generates a logarithmic correction to the entanglement entropy. In the large 't Hooft…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-01-06 Chanyong Park

We initiate the study of how tensor networks reproduce properties of static holographic space-times, which are not locally pure anti-de Sitter. We consider geometries that are holographically dual to ground states of defect, interface and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-04-25 Bartlomiej Czech , Phuc H. Nguyen , Sivaramakrishnan Swaminathan

We calculate quantum corrections to the entropy of four-dimensional de Sitter space induced by higher-derivative terms in the gravitational action and by one-loop effects. Employing the intertwinement in semiclassical gravity of Euclidean…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-02-12 Nikolay Bobev , Thomas Hertog , Junho Hong , Joel Karlsson , Valentin Reys

We propose a new class of holographic dualities between certain, generically non supersymmetric, defect conformal field theories (dCFTs) and their gravity duals. Our construction interpolates between the 1/2-BPS D3-D3 system and its field…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-04-27 George Georgiou , Dimitrios Zoakos