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In this paper I propose a branch point twist field approach to computing a temporal entropy, that is, an entanglement measure across different time regions, as opposed to the usual spacial measures. I discuss how the shift to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-03-24 Olalla A. Castro-Alvaredo

Ryu and Takayanagi conjectured a formula for the entanglement (von Neumann) entropy of an arbitrary spatial region in an arbitrary holographic field theory. The von Neumann entropy is a special case of a more general class of entropies…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-01-04 Matthew Headrick

In this paper, we investigate entanglement for causally connected subregions $A$ and $B$ in quantum field theory and holography. Recent developments have established that a transition operator $T_{AB}$ can be well-defined for such…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-08-08 XiangKun Gong , Wu-zhong Guo , Jin Xu

We propose a novel family of entanglement measures for time-separated subsystems. Our definitions are applicable to any quantum system, continuous or discrete. To illustrate their utility, we derive upper and lower bounds on time-separated…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-16 Alexey Milekhin , Zofia Adamska , John Preskill

In order to study the pseudo entropy of time-like subregions holographically, the previous smooth space-like extremal surface was recently generalized to mix space-like and time-like segments and the area becomes complex value. This paper…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-04-06 Ze Li , Zi-Qing Xiao , Run-Qiu Yang

The recently introduced concept of timelike entanglement entropy has sparked a lot of interest. Unlike the traditional spacelike entanglement entropy, timelike entanglement entropy involves tracing over a timelike subsystem. In this work,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-05-08 Sebastian Grieninger , Kazuki Ikeda , Dmitri E. Kharzeev

Anyonic systems are modeled by topologically protected Hilbert spaces which obey complex superselection rules restricting possible operations. These Hilbert spaces cannot be decomposed into tensor products of spatially localized subsystems,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-12-19 Kohtaro Kato , Fabian Furrer , Mio Murao

We define a new information theoretic quantity called odd entanglement entropy (OEE) which enables us to compute the entanglement wedge cross section in holographic CFTs. The entanglement wedge cross section has been introduced as a minimal…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-04-12 Kotaro Tamaoka

We investigate the effect of a time-reversal breaking impurity term on both the equilibrium and non-equilibrium critical properties of entanglement entropy (EE) in a three-spin interacting transverse Ising model which can be mapped to a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-04-24 Tanay Nag , Atanu Rajak

This work investigates holographic timelike entanglement entropy in higher curvature gravity, with a particular focus on Lovelock theories and on the role of excited states. For strip subsystems, higher-curvature terms are found to affect…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-12-22 Zi-Xuan Zhao , Long Zhao , Song He

Analytic continuations of holographic entanglement entropy in which the boundary subregion extends along a timelike direction have brought a promise of a novel, time-centric probe of the emergence of spacetime. We propose that the bulk…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-04-02 Michal P. Heller , Fabio Ori , Alexandre Serantes

AApplying the Born-Infeld Anti de Sitter charged black hole metric we calculate holographic entanglement entropy (HEE) by regarding the proposal of Ryu and Takanayagi. To do so we assume that time dependence of the black hole mass and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-11-28 H. Ghaffarnejad , M. Farsam , E. Yaraie

The properties of the entanglement entropy (EE) in one-dimensional disordered interacting systems are studied. Anderson localization leaves a clear signature on the average EE, as it saturates on length scale exceeding the localization…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-04 Richard Berkovits

We study the entanglement entropy for time-like subsystem in two-dimensional boundary conformal field theory (BCFT) both from the field theory and holographic point of view. In field theory, we compute the time-like entanglement entropy of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-03-12 Chong-Sun Chu , Himanshu Parihar

This work presents a study of the entanglement entropy (EE) in a class of four-dimensional ${\cal N}=1$ linear quiver SCFTs deformed by the presence of a VEV. We review the holographic backgrounds dual to these theories, and calculate the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-09-25 Dimitrios Chatzis , Ali Fatemiabhari , Mauro Giliberti , Madison Hammond

We study odd entanglement entropy (odd entropy in short), a candidate of measure for mixed states holographically dual to the entanglement wedge cross section, in two-dimensional free scalar field theories. Our study is restricted to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-12-02 Ali Mollabashi , Kotaro Tamaoka

We study the entanglement entropy (EE) and the R\'{e}nyi entropy (RE) of multiple intervals in two-dimensional $T\overline{T}$-deformed conformal field theory (CFT) at finite temperature by field theoretic and holographic methods. First, by…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-02-03 Hyun-Sik Jeong , Keun-Young Kim , Mitsuhiro Nishida

We discuss the time dependence of subsystem entropies in interacting quantum systems. As a model for the time dependence, we suggest that the entropy is as large as possible given two constraints: one follows from the existence of an…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-04-02 Márk Mezei , Douglas Stanford

We study the entanglement entropy (EE) of Gaussian systems on a lattice with periodic boundary conditions, both in the vacuum and at nonzero temperatures. By restricting the reduced subsystem to periodic sublattices, we can compute the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-01-25 Temple He , Javier M. Magan , Stefan Vandoren

We compare the holographic timelike entanglement entropy with the pseudo-entropy arising from a two-qubit quantum mechanical system. In this model, we consider transitions from an initial thermal state to a final thermal state at fixed…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-02-25 M. Ali-Akbari