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We introduce R\'enyi entropy of a subsystem energy as a natural quantity which closely mimics the behavior of the entanglement entropy and can be defined for all the quantum many body systems. For this purpose, consider a quantum chain in…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-11-13 Khadijeh Najafi , M. A. Rajabpour

Exploiting the split property of quantum field theories (QFTs), a notion of von Neumann entropy associated to pairs of spatial subregions has been recently proposed both in the holographic context -- where it has been argued to be related…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-02-17 Pablo Bueno , Horacio Casini

In this paper, we use the replica approach to study the R\'enyi entropy $S_L$ of generic locally excited states in (1+1)D CFTs, which are constructed from the insertion of multiple product of local primary operators on vacuum.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-06-21 Wu-zhong Guo , Song He , Zhu-Xi Luo

The concept of distinguishability lies at the heart of quantum information theory. We introduce \textit{left-right relative entropy} as a quantitative measure of distinguishability within the space of boundary states in two-dimensional…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-26 Mostafa Ghasemi

We investigate the short interval expansion of the R\'enyi entropy for two-dimensional conformal field theory (CFT) on a torus. We require the length of the interval $\ell$ to be small with respect to the spatial and temporal sizes of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-08-31 Bin Chen , Jun-Bao Wu , Jia-ju Zhang

In this paper, we consider the R\'enyi entanglement asymmetry of excited states in the 1+1 dimensional free compact boson conformal field theory (CFT) at equilibrium. We obtain a universal CFT expression written by correlation functions for…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-12-19 Miao Chen , Hui-Huang Chen

This dissertation investigates relative entropies, also called generalized divergences, and how they can be used to characterize information-theoretic tasks in quantum information theory. The main goal is to further refine characterizations…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-11-29 Felix Leditzky

The interplay of quantum and classical fluctuations in the vicinity of a quantum critical point (QCP) gives rise to various regimes or phases with distinct quantum character. In this work, we show that the R\'enyi entropy is a precious tool…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-12-29 Miha Srdinšek , Michele Casula , Rodolphe Vuilleumier

In this paper, we study the holographic R\'enyi entropy of a large interval on a circle at high temperature for the two-dimensional conformal field theory (CFT) dual to pure AdS$_3$ gravity. In the field theory, the R\'enyi entropy is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-11-11 Bin Chen , Jie-qiang Wu

In this paper, we calculate the R\'enyi entropy of one single interval on a circle at finite temperature in 2D CFT. In the low temperature limit, we expand the thermal density matrix level by level in the vacuum Verma module, and calculate…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-19 Bin Chen , Jie-qiang Wu

We explore the R\'enyi entanglement entropies of a one-dimensional (line) subsystem of length $L$ embedded in two-dimensional $L\times L$ square lattice for quantum spin models whose ground-state breaks a continuous symmetry in the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-05-01 David J. Luitz , Xavier Plat , Fabien Alet , Nicolas Laflorencie

We analyze entanglement between quantum interacting fields. In particular, we use R\'enyi entropy to quantify the entanglement between the fields in the ground state of the linear $\sigma$ model. We adopt R\'enyi entropy because the failure…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-03-17 Daniele Teresi , Giuseppe Compagno

We investigate the role of the permutationally invariant part of the density matrix (PIDM) in capturing the properties of the ground state of the system during a quantum phase transition. In the context of quantum state tomography, PIDM is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-12-18 Yuki Miyazaki , Giacomo Marmorini , Nobuo Furukawa , Daisuke Yamamoto

We study the structure of divergences and universal terms of the entanglement and R\'enyi entropies for singular regions. First, we show that for $(3+1)$-dimensional free conformal field theories (CFTs), entangling regions emanating from…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-09-04 Pablo Bueno , Horacio Casini , William Witczak-Krempa

We present a general method for calculating R\'enyi entropies in the ground state of a one-dimensional critical system with mixed open boundaries, for an interval starting at one of its ends. In the conformal field theory framework, this…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-11-12 Benoit Estienne , Yacine Ikhlef , Andrei Rotaru

We consider the relative entropy between vacuum states of two different theories: a conformal field theory (CFT), and the CFT perturbed by a relevant operator. By restricting both states to the null Cauchy surface in the causal domain of a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-04-05 Horacio Casini , Eduardo Teste , Gonzalo Torroba

The sandwiched R\'enyi divergences of two finite-dimensional density operators quantify their asymptotic distinguishability in the strong converse domain. This establishes the sandwiched R\'enyi divergences as the operationally relevant…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-12 Milán Mosonyi

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

Although the leading-order scaling of entanglement entropy is non-universal at a quantum critical point (QCP), sub-leading scaling can contain universal behaviour. Such universal quantities are commonly studied in non-interacting field…

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