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Using extended island formula we compute entanglement entropy of Hawking radiation for black hole solutions of certain gravitational models containing higher derivative terms. To be concrete we consider two different four dimensional models…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-02-24 Mohsen Alishahiha , Amin Faraji Astaneh , Ali Naseh

Motivated by the necessity to UV-regularise entanglement entropy, we present a spectral method for calculating the entropy of quasifree states, for both bosonic and fermionic field theories. This construction is defined in spacetime rather…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-02-20 Joshua Y. L. Jones , Yasaman K. Yazdi

We present a unified Lorentzian replica-path-integral framework for computing entanglement entropy in fully time-dependent quantum field theories and gravitational systems. Building on this framework, we apply the real-time replica trick to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-01-21 Anastasios Irakleous

Recent work has demonstrated the need to include contributions from entanglement islands when computing the entanglement entropy in QFT states coupled to regions of semiclassical gravity. We propose a new formula for the reflected entropy…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-10-14 Venkatesa Chandrasekaran , Masamichi Miyaji , Pratik Rath

We develop a random sampling method for calculating the time evolution of the R\'{e}nyi entanglement entropy after a quantum quench from an insulating state in free boson systems. Because of the non-Gaussian nature of the initial state,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-12 Ryui Kaneko , Daichi Kagamihara , Ippei Danshita

Entanglement entropy quantifies the amount of uncertainty of a quantum state. For quantum fields in curved space, entanglement entropy of the quantum field theory degrees of freedom is well-defined for a fixed background geometry. In this…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-10-28 Xi Dong , Xiao-Liang Qi , Zhou Shangnan , Zhenbin Yang

Following our previous work on hybrid quantum states in the RST model, we study its most interesting solution representing a completely regular spacetime with the structure of causal diamond, containing an apparent horizon and radiation at…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-11-15 Yohan Potaux , Debajyoti Sarkar , Sergey N. Solodukhin

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

In this note we lay some groundwork for the resource theory of thermodynamics in general probabilistic theories (GPTs). We consider theories satisfying a purely convex abstraction of the spectral decomposition of density matrices: that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-11-06 Howard Barnum , Jonathan Barrett , Marius Krumm , Markus P. Müller

Free probability and random matrix theory has shown to be a fruitful combination in many fields of research, such as digital communications, nuclear physics and mathematical finance. The link between free probability and eigenvalue…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Øyvind Ryan , Mérouane Debbah

In a close look at the replica wormhole derivation of the island conjecture, we note a discrepancy in the derived matrix eigenvalues in the limit where the Hawking radiation entropy goes to zero. The small corrections to the density matrix…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-02-10 Anna Karlsson

We consider spacetime initiated by a finite-sized initial boundary as a generalization of the Hartle-Hawking no-boundary state. We study entanglement entropy of matter state prepared by such spacetime. We find that the entanglement entropy…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-01-05 Masamichi Miyaji

It is known that the semiclassical approximation to the gravity path integral can be leveraged to explain certain inherently quantum aspects of gravity. One such aspect is the state-counting interpretation of the Bekenstein-Hawking entropy…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-04-15 Juan Hernandez , Mikhail Khramtsov

We use the replica method to compute the entanglement entropy of a universe without gravity entangled in a thermofield-double-like state with a disjoint gravitating universe. Including wormholes between replicas of the latter gives an…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-03-17 Vijay Balasubramanian , Arjun Kar , Tomonori Ugajin

We consider a spin-s Heisenberg model coupled to two-dimensional quantum gravity. We quantize the model using the Feynman path integral, summing over all possible two-dimensional geometries and spin configurations. We regularize this path…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-07-15 J. Ambjorn , Sh. Khachatryan , A. Sedrakyan

We consider a gravity theory coupled to matter, where the matter has a higher-dimensional holographic dual. In such a theory, finding quantum extremal surfaces becomes equivalent to finding the RT/HRT surfaces in the higher-dimensional…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-04-22 Ahmed Almheiri , Raghu Mahajan , Juan Maldacena , Ying Zhao

Geometric Brownian motion (GBM) is a standard model in stochastic differential equations. In this study, we consider a matrix-valued GBM with non-commutative matrices. Introduction of non-commutative matrices into the matrix-valued GBM…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-10-12 Manaka Okuyama , Masayuki Ohzeki

The island formula -- an extremization prescription for generalized entropy -- is known to result in a unitary Page curve for the entropy of Hawking radiation. This semi-classical entropy formula has been derived for Jackiw-Teitelboim (JT)…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-06-22 Juan F. Pedraza , Andrew Svesko , Watse Sybesma , Manus R. Visser

We present a systematic framework for computing frequency-domain gravitational waveforms from relativistic binary scattering in different asymptotic regimes. The method yields a controlled series expansion that can in principle be extended…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-11-03 Giacomo Brunello , Vsevolod Chestnov , Giulio Crisanti , Mathieu Giroux , Sid Smith

The eigenvalue spectrum of the sum of large random matrices that are mutually "free", i.e., randomly rotated, can be obtained using the formalism of R-transforms, with many applications in different fields. We provide a direct…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-04-18 Pierre Bousseyroux , Jean-Philippe Bouchaud
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