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The entanglement entropy has been historically studied by many authors in order to obtain quantum mechanical interpretations of the gravitational entropy. The discovery of AdS/CFT correspondence leads to the idea of holographic entanglement…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-04 Tadashi Takayanagi

We calculate the entanglement and the universal boundary entropy (BE) in the critical quantum spin chains, such as the transverse field Ising chain and the XXZ chain, with arbitrary direction of the boundary magnetic field (ADBMF). We…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-07-01 J. C. Xavier , M. A. Rajabpour

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

We present an operator-algebraic definition for timelike entanglement entropy in QFT under a few mild postulates. This rigorously defined timelike entanglement entropy is real-valued due to the timelike tube theorem. We further demonstrate…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-20 Xin Jiang , Haitang Yang

arXiv:1205.2953 defines an entropy for a gaussian scalar field $\phi$ in an arbitrary region of either a causal set or a continuous spacetime, given only the correlator $\langle\phi(x)\phi(y)\rangle$ within the region. As a first…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-12-25 Mehdi Saravani , Rafael D. Sorkin , Yasaman K. Yazdi

We consider holographic entanglement entropy in AdS black hole backgrounds by using the limit of large number of dimensions. By dividing the geometry to two patches (with one patch covering the vicinity of the black hole horizon and another…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-03-27 Parul Jain , Matti Järvinen

We develop a unified framework for computing R\'enyi and entanglement entropies of arbitrary spacetime intervals in time-dependent states of $(1+1)$-dimensional conformal field theories. By combining the spacetime density matrix formalism…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-01-01 Wu-zhong Guo , Song He , Tao Liu

The entanglement entropy in three-dimensional conformal field theories (CFTs) receives a logarithmic contribution characterized by a regulator-independent function $a(\theta)$ when the entangling surface contains a sharp corner with opening…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-10-14 Pablo Bueno , Robert C. Myers , William Witczak-Krempa

We point out that the entropy of (near) extremal black holes can be interpreted as the entanglement entropy of dual conformal quantum mechanics via AdS2/CFT1. As an explicit example, we study near extremal BTZ black holes and derive this…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Tatsuo Azeyanagi , Tatsuma Nishioka , Tadashi Takayanagi

We analyze the entanglement of a Schwinger pair created by a time-dependent pulse. In the semi-classical approximation, the pair creation by a pulse of external electric field is captured by a periodic worldline instanton. At strong gauge…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-12-20 Sebastian Grieninger , Dmitri E. Kharzeev , Ismail Zahed

We use holography in order to study the entanglement entropy for a spherical entangling surface in a FRW background with an arbitrary time dependence of the scale factor. The calculation is done in various dimensions, allowing for nonzero…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-07-07 D. Giataganas , N. Tetradis

We consider the holographic entanglement entropy of $(d+2)$-dimensional semi-local quantum liquids, for which the dual gravity background in the deep interior is $AdS_{2}\times\mathbb{R}^{d}$ multiplied by a warp factor which depends on the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-17 Johanna Erdmenger , Da-Wei Pang , Hansjörg Zeller

We use holographic duality to study the entanglement entropy (EE) of Conformal Field Theories (CFTs) in various spacetime dimensions $d$, in the presence of various deformations: a relevant Lorentz scalar operator with constant source, a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-11-22 Nikola I. Gushterov , Andy O'Bannon , Ronnie Rodgers

We study the symmetry resolution of the entanglement entropy of an interval in two-dimensional conformal field theories (CFTs), by relating the bipartition to the geometry of an annulus with conformal boundary conditions. In the presence of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-10-21 Giuseppe Di Giulio , René Meyer , Christian Northe , Henri Scheppach , Suting Zhao

We calculate the hybrid entanglement entropy between coin and walker degrees of freedom in a non-unitary quantum walk. The model possesses a joint parity and time-reversal symmetry or PT-symmetry and supports topological phases when this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-02-08 Gene M. M. Itable , Francis N. C. Paraan

In this paper we give an exact infinite-series expression for the bi-partite entanglement entropy of the quantum Ising model both with a boundary magnetic field and in infinite volume. This generalizes and extends previous results involving…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-01-25 Olalla A. Castro-Alvaredo , Benjamin Doyon

We develop a holographic framework for computing timelike entanglement entropy (tEE) in quantum field theories, extending the Ryu-Takayanagi prescription into Lorentzian settings. Using three broad classes of supergravity backgrounds, we…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-10-21 Carlos Nunez , Dibakar Roychowdhury

Boundary impurities are known to dramatically alter certain bulk properties of 1+1 dimensional strongly correlated systems. The entanglement entropy of a zero temperature Luttinger liquid bisected by a single impurity is computed using a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-10 Gregory Levine

Entanglement asymmetry is a measure of symmetry breaking in quantum subsystems, inspired by quantum information theory, particularly suited to study out-of-equilibrium states. We study the entanglement asymmetry of a class of excited…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-09-23 Francesco Benini , Victor Godet , Amartya Harsh Singh

The real part of pseudo entropy in conformal field theories is holographically calculated by the area of some extremal spacelike surfaces in the dual dS and AdS spacetimes. We show that the flat-space limit of these curves in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-10-08 Reza Fareghbal