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In this work, we study the real-time evolution of pseudo-(R\'enyi) entropy, a generalization of entanglement entropy, in two-dimensional conformal field theories (CFTs). We focus on states obtained by acting primary operators located at…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-09-28 Wu-zhong Guo , Song He , Yu-Xuan Zhang

As a generalization of entanglement entropy, pseudo entropy is not always real. The real-valued pseudo entropy has promising applications in holography and quantum phase transition. We apply the notion of pseudo-Hermticity to formulate the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-05-24 Wu-zhong Guo , Song He , Yu-Xuan Zhang

We study the late-time behaviors of pseudo-(R\'enyi) entropy of locally excited states in rational conformal field theories (RCFTs). To construct the transition matrix, we utilize two non-orthogonal locally excited states that are created…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-02-06 Song He , Jie Yang , Yu-Xuan Zhang , Zi-Xuan Zhao

By generalizing the density matrix to a transition matrix between two states, represented as $|\phi\rangle$ and $|\psi\rangle$, one can define the pseudoentropy analogous to the entanglement entropy. In this paper, we establish an operator…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-05-15 Wu-zhong Guo , Jiaju Zhang

In this work, we investigate the time evolution of the pseudo-(R\'enyi) entropy after local primary operator quenches in 2D CFTs with $T\bar T/J\bar T$-deformation. Using perturbation theory, we analyze the corrections to the second…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-09-08 Song He , Jie Yang , Yu-Xuan Zhang , Zi-Xuan Zhao

We mainly study the R\'enyi entropy and entanglement entropy of the states locally excited by the descendent operators in two dimensional conformal field theories (CFTs). In rational CFTs, we prove that the increase of entanglement entropy…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-08-10 Bin Chen , Wu-Zhong Guo , Song He , Jie-qiang Wu

We introduce a pseudo entropy extension of topological entanglement entropy called topological pseudo entropy. Various examples of the topological pseudo entropies are examined in three-dimensional Chern-Simons gauge theory with Wilson loop…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-09-08 Tatsuma Nishioka , Tadashi Takayanagi , Yusuke Taki

We study the properties of pseudo entropy, a new generalization of entanglement entropy, in free Maxwell field theory in $d = 4$ dimension. We prepare excited states by the different components of the field strengths located at different…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-10-19 Jyotirmoy Mukherjee

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

Unitarity is a cornerstone of quantum theory, ensuring the conservation of probability and information. Although non-Hermitian Hamiltonians are typically associated with open or dissipative systems, pseudo-Hermitian quantum mechanics shows…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-11-03 Ruifeng Leng , Cheng-Yang Lee , Siyi Zhou

We study the relative R\'enyi entropy (RRE) under local quenches in two-dimensional conformal field theories (CFTs), focusing on rational CFTs (RCFTs) and holographic CFTs. In RCFTs, the RRE evolves as a monotonic function over time,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-12-22 Zi-Xuan Zhao , Song He , Hao Ouyang , Hong-an Zeng , Yu-Xuan Zhang

We propose a field theoretic framework for calculating the dependence of R\'enyi entropies on the shape of the entangling surface in a conformal field theory. Our approach rests on regarding the corresponding twist operator as a conformal…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-08-24 Lorenzo Bianchi , Marco Meineri , Robert C. Myers , Michael Smolkin

Entanglement and the R\'enyi entropies for Dirac fermions on 2 dimensional torus in the presence of chemical potential, current source, and topological Wilson loop are unified in a single framework by exhausting all the ingredients of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-01-19 Bom Soo Kim

Entanglement entropy in even dimensional conformal field theories (CFTs) contains well-known universal terms arising from the conformal anomaly. Renyi entropies are natural generalizations of the entanglement entropy that are much less…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-06-25 Jeongseog Lee , Lauren McGough , Benjamin R. Safdi

The pseudo entropy is a promising recent generalization of the entanglement entropy to the situations in which both the initial and final state are involved, with the density matrix promoted to the transition matrix. However, in contrast to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-06-02 Zhou Chen

Quantum entanglement is one essential element to characterize many-body quantum systems. However, the entanglement measures are mostly discussed in Hermitian systems. Here, we propose a natural extension of entanglement and R\'enyi…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-06-15 Yi-Ting Tu , Yu-Chin Tzeng , Po-Yao Chang

R\'enyi entanglement entropy provides a new window to study the AdS/CFT correspondence. In this paper we consider the short interval expansion of R\'enyi entanglement entropy in two-dimensional conformal field theory. This amounts to do the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-12-19 Bin Chen , Jia-ju Zhang

In this work, we develop a generalisation of the thermal entropy to complex inverse temperatures, which we call the thermal pseudo-entropy. We show that this quantity represents the pseudo-entropy of the transition matrix between…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-11-20 Pawel Caputa , Bowen Chen , Tadashi Takayanagi , Takashi Tsuda

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

We study the entanglement entropy of theories that are derived from relevant perturbation of given CFTs for regions with a singular boundary by using the AdS/CFT correspondence. In the smooth case, it is well known that a relevant…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-02-26 Mostafa Ghasemi , Shahrokh Parvizi
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