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We investigate the R\'enyi entropy and entanglement entropy of an interval with an arbitrary length in the canonical ensemble, microcanonical ensemble and primary excited states at large energy density in the thermodynamic limit of a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-08-08 Wu-zhong Guo , Feng-Li Lin , Jiaju Zhang

The topological R\'enyi and entanglement entropies depend on the bipartition of the manifold and the choice of the ground states. However, these entanglement quantities remain invariant under a coordinate transformation when the bipartition…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-02-21 Chih-Yu Lo , Po-Yao Chang

We study holographic pseudoentropy for subregions in non-unitary Euclidean conformal field theories (CFTs) within the framework of the de Sitter/conformal field theory (dS/CFT) correspondence. Pseudoentropy, defined as the von Neumann…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-28 Giorgos Anastasiou , Ignacio J. Araya , Avijit Das , Javier Moreno

Quantum entanglement, lacking any classical counterpart, provides a fundamental new route to characterize the quantum nature of many-body states. In this work, we discuss an implementation of a new path integral method [Phys. Rev. Res. 2,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-02-06 Surajit Bera , Arijit Haldar , Sumilan Banerjee

Quantum reference frames provide a relational description of multipartite quantum systems in which physical states and observables are defined relative to quantum observers. Yet different observers can assign different entropies to the same…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-26 Anne-Catherine de la Hamette

We study the generalisation of relative entropy, the Renyi divergence $D_{\alpha} ( \rho||\rho_\beta) $ in 2$d$ CFTs between an excited state density matrix $\rho$, created by deforming the Hamiltonian, and the thermal density matrix…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-05-20 Barsha G. Chowdhury , Shouvik Datta , Justin R. David

Phase-space versions of quantum mechanics -- from Wigner's original distribution to modern discrete-qudit constructions -- represent some states with negative quasi-probabilities. Conventional Shannon and R\'enyi entropies become…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-23 Adam Brandenburger , Pierfrancesco La Mura

In the context of the holographic duality, the entanglement entropy of ordinary QFT in a subregion in the boundary is given by a quarter of the area of an minimal surface embedded in the bulk spacetime. This rule has been also extended to a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-08-26 Marcelo Botta-Cantcheff , Pedro J. Martinez , Juan F. Zarate

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 propose a novel expansion to compute the large interval limit of the R\'enyi entropy of 2D CFT at high temperature. Via the replica trick, the single interval R\'enyi entropy of 2D CFT at finite temperature could be read…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-12-16 Bin Chen , Jie-qiang Wu

The concept of classical $f$-divergences gives a unified framework to construct and study measures of dissimilarity of probability distributions; special cases include the relative entropy and the R\'enyi divergences. Various quantum…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-08-08 Fumio Hiai , Milan Mosonyi

A relation between the conformal anomaly and the logarithmic term in the entanglement entropy is known to exist for CFT's in even dimensions. In odd dimensions the local anomaly and the logarithmic term in the entropy are absent. As was…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-04-20 Dmitri V. Fursaev , Sergey N. Solodukhin

We study a proper definition of R\'enyi mutual information (RMI) in quantum field theory as defined via the Petz R\'enyi relative entropy. Unlike the standard definition, the RMI we compute is a genuine measure of correlations between…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-01-16 Jonah Kudler-Flam

We consider single interval R\'enyi and entanglement entropies for a two dimensional conformal field theory on a circle at nonzero temperature. Assuming that the finite size of the system introduces a unique ground state with a nonzero mass…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-05-07 John Cardy , Christopher P. Herzog

In this work, we investigate a very important but unstressed result in the work of Carl M. Bender, Jun-Hua Chen, and Kimball A. Milton ( J.Phys.A39:1657-1668, 2006). In this article, Bender \textit{et.al} have calculated the vacuum energy…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-02-11 Abouzeid. M. Shalaby

In this paper, we establish a sum rule that connects the pseudoentropy and entanglement entropy of a superposition state. Through analytical continuation of the superposition parameter, we demonstrate that the transition matrix and density…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-06-12 Wu-zhong Guo , Yao-zong Jiang , Jin Xu

In this paper, we discuss the entanglement phase transition of pseudo entropy in CFTs. We focus on the case where the in-state and the out-state are different boundary states related by boundary condition changing operators. We compute the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-03-13 Hiroki Kanda , Tadashi Takayanagi , Zixia Wei

The R\'enyi-Shannon entropy associated to critical quantum spins chain with central charge $c=1$ is shown to have a phase transition at some value $n_c$ of the R\'enyi parameter $n$ which depends on the Luttinger parameter (or…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2011-11-30 Jean-Marie Stéphan , Grégoire Misguich , Vincent Pasquier

We calculate analytically the R\'enyi bipartite entanglement entropy $S_{\alpha}$ of the ground state of $1+1$ dimensional conformal field theories (CFT) after performing a projective measurement in a part of the system. We show that the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-08-03 M. A. Rajabpour

We consider 3d N>= 2 superconformal field theories on a branched covering of a three-sphere. The Renyi entropy of a CFT is given by the partition function on this space, but conical singularities break the supersymmetry preserved in the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-16 Tatsuma Nishioka , Itamar Yaakov