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We will explore the dynamical property of non-equilibrium phenomena induced by two-dimensional holographic conformal field theory (2d holographic CFT) Hamiltonian on the curved spacetime by studying the time dependence of the entanglement…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-12-31 Chen Bai , Akihiro Miyata , Masahiro Nozaki

We show that in any relativistic system, entanglement entropy obeys a speed limit set by the entanglement in thermal equilibrium. The bound is derived from inequalities on relative entropy with respect to a thermal reference state. Thus the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-12-10 Thomas Hartman , Nima Afkhami-Jeddi

We consider a holographic model of two 1+1-dimensional heat baths at different temperatures joined at time $t=0$, such that a steady state heat-current region forms and expands in space for times $t>0$. After commenting on the causal…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-01-17 Mario Flory , Johanna Erdmenger , Daniel Fernandez , Eugenio Megias , Ann-Kathrin Straub , Piotr Witkowski

The fermionic R\'enyi entanglement entropy is studied for causal diamonds in two-dimensional Minkowski spacetime. Choosing the quasi-free state describing the Minkowski vacuum with an ultraviolet regularization, a logarithmically enhanced…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-11-13 Felix Finster , Magdalena Lottner , Albert Much , Simone Murro

Quantum phase transitions occur at zero temperature and involve the appearance of long-range correlations. These correlations are not due to thermal fluctuations but to the intricate structure of a strongly entangled ground state of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 G. Vidal , J. I. Latorre , E. Rico , A. Kitaev

We review a formulation of the entanglement entropy of a quantum scalar field in terms of its spacetime two-point correlation functions. We discuss applications of this formulation to studying entanglement entropy in various settings in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-12-06 Yasaman K. Yazdi

An upper bound of the relative entanglement entropy of thermal states at an inverse temperature $\beta$ of linear, massive Klein-Gordon and Dirac quantum field theories across two regions, separated by a nonzero distance $d$ in a Cauchy…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2020-02-25 Onirban Islam

We study the entanglement dynamics of thermofield double (TFD) states in integrable spin chains and quantum field theories. We show that, for a natural choice of the Hamiltonian eigenbasis, the TFD evolution may be interpreted as a quantum…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-05-12 Gianluca Lagnese , Pasquale Calabrese , Lorenzo Piroli

In this paper, we define the holographic multipartite entanglement entropy for $N$ separated subsystems living in a compact $\text{CFT}_d$ space-time. In a large $N$ limit, we find that the first-order holographic entanglement entropy…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-05-06 Hadyan Luthfan Prihadi , Donny Dwiputra , Freddy Permana Zen

We consider the universal logarithmic divergent term in the entanglement entropy of gauge fields in the Minkowski vacuum with an entangling sphere. Employing the mapping in arXiv:1102.0440, we analyze the corresponding thermal entropy on…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-17 Christopher Eling , Yaron Oz , Stefan Theisen

Using the subtraction approach, we give the bipartite mixed state entanglement entropy in thermal $\text{CFT}_2$. With these entanglement entropies, we examine in detail the holographic duals of different entangling configurations…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-09-01 Xin Jiang , Haitang Yang , Zilin Zhao

In this paper, we compare and analyze holographic timelike entanglement entropy with pseudo-entropy in quantum mechanics for a two-qubit system, considering transitions from a thermal state to an anisotropic thermal state at fixed…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-01-27 M. M. Daryaei Goki , M. Ali-Akbari

We evaluate one-interval R\'enyi entropy and entanglement entropy for the excited states of two-dimensional conformal field theory (CFT) on a cylinder, and examine their differences from the ones for the thermal state. We assume the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-11-29 Feng-Li Lin , Huajia Wang , Jia-ju Zhang

We revisit the calculation of vacuum entanglement entropy in free Maxwell theory in four-dimensional Minkowski spacetime. Weyl invariance allows for this theory to be embedded as a patch inside the Einstein static universe. We use conformal…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-03-22 Hong Zhe Chen , Robert Myers , Ana-Maria Raclariu

We consider entanglement entropy of a cap-like region for a conformal field theory living on a sphere times a circle in d space-time dimensions. Assuming that the finite size of the system introduces a unique ground state with a nonzero…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-22 Christopher P. Herzog

We calculate the evolution of the geometric entanglement entropy following a local quench in the D1D5 conformal field theory, a two-dimensional theory that describes a particular bound state of D1 and D5 branes. The quench corresponds to a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-03-19 Curtis T. Asplund , Steven G. Avery

Entropy is a quantity for counting physical degrees of freedom in a system. At a finite temperature, one can use thermal entropy to study thermodynamical properties. At zero temperature, entanglement entropy is expected to provide a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-10-29 Chen-Te Ma

We consider a conformal field theory in two dimensions in which an external perturbation is placed. We study the energy flux and entanglement entropy for one, two and multiple intervals and give a suggestion relating the two in some cases.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-11-01 Talya Vaknin

In this study, we establish a connection between timelike and spacelike entanglement entropy. We show that timelike entanglement entropy is closely related to spacelike entanglement entropy and its temporal derivative. For a broad class of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-01-01 Wu-zhong Guo , Song He , Yu-Xuan Zhang

Entanglement entropy is a statistical entropy measuring information loss due to coarse-graining corresponding to a spatial division of a system. In this paper we construct a thermodynamics (entanglement thermodynamics) which includes the…

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