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The relative entropy of certain states on the algebra of canonical anticommutation relations (CAR) is studied in the present work. The CAR algebra is used to describe fermionic degrees of freedom in quantum mechanics and quantum field…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-09-04 Stefano Galanda , Albert Much , Rainer Verch

The fermionic relative entropy in two-dimensional Rindler spacetime is studied using both modular theory and the reduced one-particle density operators. The methods and results are compared. A formula for the relative entropy for general…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-03-23 Felix Finster , Albert Much

By using Araki's relative entropy, Lieb's convexity and the theory of singular integrals, we compute the mutual information associated with free fermions, and we deduce many results about entropies for chiral CFT's which are embedded into…

Operator Algebras · Mathematics 2017-12-21 Roberto Longo , Feng Xu

We numerically investigate the Araki-Uhlmann relative entropy in Quantum Field Theory, focusing on a free massive scalar field in 1+1-dimensional Minkowski spacetime. Using Tomita-Takesaki modular theory, we analyze the relative entropy…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-07-08 Marcelo S. Guimaraes , Itzhak Roditi , Silvio P. Sorella , Arthur F. Vieira

We consider the fermionic entanglement entropy for the free Dirac field in a bounded spatial region of Minkowski spacetime. In order to make the system ultraviolet finite, a regularization is introduced. An area law is proven in the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-12-20 Felix Finster , Magdalena Lottner , Alexander V. Sobolev

We evaluate the relative entropy on a ball region near the UV fixed point of a holographic conformal field theory deformed by a fermionic operator of nonzero vacuum expectation value. The positivity of the relative entropy considered here…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-10-28 Feng-Li Lin , Bo Ning

We study the relative entanglement entropies of one interval between excited states of a 1+1 dimensional conformal field theory (CFT). To compute the relative entropy $S(\rho_1 \| \rho_0)$ between two given reduced density matrices $\rho_1$…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-02-14 Paola Ruggiero , Pasquale Calabrese

The relative entropy is a measure of the distinguishability of two quantum states. A great deal of progress has been made in the study of the relative entropy between an excited state and the vacuum state of a conformal field theory (CFT)…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-11-25 Ning Bao , Mudassir Moosa , Ibrahim Shehzad

The fermionic von Neumann entropy, the fermionic entanglement entropy and the fermionic relative entropy are defined for causal fermion systems. Our definition makes use of entropy formulas for quasi-free fermionic states in terms of the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-04-16 Felix Finster , Robert H. Jonsson , Magdalena Lottner , Albert Much , Simone Murro

We consider the generalization of the Araki-Uhlmann formula for relative entropy to Petz-R\'enyi relative entropy. We compute this entropy for a free scalar field in the Minkowski wedge between the vacuum and a coherent state, as well as…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-03-18 Markus B. Fröb , Leonardo Sangaletti

For a subalgebra of a generic CCR algebra, we consider the relative entropy between a general (not necessarily pure) quasifree state and a coherent excitation thereof. We give a unified formula for this entropy in terms of single-particle…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2021-12-07 Henning Bostelmann , Daniela Cadamuro , Simone Del Vecchio

The thermodynamics of Dirac fields under the influence of external electromagnetic fields is studied. For perturbations which act only for finite time, the influence of the perturbation can be described by an automorphism which can be…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-09-19 Romeo Brunetti , Klaus Fredenhagen , Nicola Pinamonti

We make a rigorous computation of the relative entropy between the vacuum state and a coherent state for a free scalar in the framework of AQFT. We study the case of the Rindler Wedge. Previous calculations including path integral methods…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-01-30 Horacio Casini , Sergio Grillo , Diego Pontello

We prove that the mutual information for vacuum state as defined by Araki is finite for quantum field theory of free fermions on a Minkowski spacetime of any dimension. In the case of two dimensional chiral conformal field theory (CFT) we…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-03-27 Feng Xu

Conformal field theories in curved backgrounds have been used to describe inhomogeneous one-dimensional systems, such as quantum gases in trapping potentials and non-equilibrium spin chains. This approach provided, in a elegant and simple…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-03-26 Sara Murciano , Paola Ruggiero , Pasquale Calabrese

We provide an explicit expression for the modular hamiltonian of the von Neumann algebras associated to the unit double cone for the (fermionic) quantum field theories of the 2-component Weyl (helicity 1/2) field, and of the 4-component…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-03-18 Francesca La Piana , Gerardo Morsella

A numerical setup for investigating the Araki-Uhlmann relative entropy between two coherent states is presented for a scalar massive Quantum Field Theory in ($1+1$)-dimensional Minkowski spacetime. These states are constructed using smeared…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-11-12 João G. A. Caribé , Marcelo S. Guimaraes , Itzhak Roditi , Silvio P. Sorella

The relative entropy between two states is a key concept in quantum information theory and quantum field theory. In the setting of quantum field theory, its computation requires the handling of relative modular Hamiltonians, which are…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-05-27 Adriano Chialastri , Christoph Minz , Ko Sanders

The basic thermodynamic quantities for a non-interacting scalar field in a periodic potential composed of either a one-dimensional chain of Dirac $\delta$-$\delta^\prime$ functions or a specific potential with extended compact support are…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2020-04-22 M. Bordag , J. M. Muñoz-Castañeda , L. Santamaría-Sanz

A local formula for the dimension of a superselection sector in Quantum Field Theory is obtained as vacuum expectation value of the exponential of the proper Hamiltonian. In the particular case of a chiral conformal theory, this provides a…

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