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We investigate black hole area quantization by imposing Landauer's principle on the discrete entropy change between consecutive area levels. The elementary transition is identified with the entropy cost of erasing one bit of information,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-27 Jorge Ananias Neto , Ronaldo Thibes

We study the entanglement entropy in a relativistic quantum field theory for regions which are not included in a single spatial hyperplane. This geometric configuration cannot be treated with the Euclidean time method and the replica trick.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-09-30 David D. Blanco , Horacio Casini

A scalar field in the ground state, when partially hidden from observation by a spherical boundary, acquires entanglement entropy $S$ proportional to the area of the surface. This area law is well established in flat space, where it follows…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-10-01 Katja Ried

We compute the black hole horizon entanglement entropy S_E for a massless scalar field, first with a hard cutoff and then with high frequency dispersion, both imposed in a frame that falls freely across the horizon. Using WKB methods, we…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Ted Jacobson , Renaud Parentani

In this article, we will discuss a Lorentzian sector calculation of the entropy of a minimally coupled scalar field in the Schwarzschild black hole background using the brick wall model of 't Hooft. In the original article, the WKB…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-03-08 Kaushik Ghosh

Entanglement entropies calculated in the framework of quantum field theory on classical, flat or curved, spacetimes are known to show an intriguing area law in four dimensions, but they are also notorious for their quadratic ultraviolet…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-08-01 Carlo Pagani , Martin Reuter

We re-examine the idea that the origin of black-hole entropy may lie in the entanglement of quantum fields between inside and outside of the horizon. Motivated by the observation that certain modes of gravitational fluctuations in a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Saurya Das , S. Shankaranarayanan , Sourav Sur

Four decades after its first postulation by Bekenstein, black hole entropy remains mysterious. It has long been suggested that the entanglement entropy of quantum fields on the black hole gravitational background should represent at least…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-01-17 Alejandro Satz , Ted Jacobson

We consider scalar field entanglement entropy generated with black hole of (sub)planck mass scale thus implying the unitary evolution of gravity. The dependence on the dimension of the Hilbert space for degrees of freedom located behind the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-05-20 Maksym Teslyk , Olena Teslyk

Considering corrections to all orders in the Planck length on the quantum state density from a generalized uncertainty principle (GUP), we calculate the statistical entropy of the scalar field on the background of the Schwarzschild black…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Yong-Wan Kim , Young-Jai Park

In this paper, we develop a method to extract the Bekenstein-Hawking entropy of $D$-dimensional black holes using the entanglement entropy of a lower-dimensional conformal field theory (CFT). This approach relies on two key observations. On…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-03-05 Shuxuan Ying

We study the quantum scalar fields in background of BTZ black hole spacetime. We calculate the entanglement entropy using the discretized model, which resembles a system of coupled harmonic oscillators. The leading term of the entropy…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-11-12 Dharm Veer Singh , Sanjay Siwach

We investigate the entanglement entropy of a massive scalar field using the spherical shell lattice model introduced by Das and Shankaranarayanan. A systematic numerical analysis is performed to study the dependence of the entropy on the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-04-02 S. Bellucci , M. Shatnev , L. Zazunov

The entropy of a Schwarzschild black hole, as computed via the semiclassical Euclidean path integral in a stationary phase approximation, is determined not by the on-shell value of the action (which vanishes), but by the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-12-19 Jens Boos

Simple arguments related to the entropy of black holes strongly constrain the spectrum of the area operator for a Schwarzschild black hole in loop quantum gravity. In particular, this spectrum is fixed completely by the assumption that the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 I. B. Khriplovich

The area law-like scaling of local quantum entropies is the central characteristic of the entanglement inherent in quantum fields, many-body systems, and spacetime. Whilst the area law is primarily associated with the entanglement structure…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-19 Tobias Haas

We examine the idea that in quantum gravity, the entanglement entropy of a general region should be finite and the leading contribution is given by the Bekenstein-Hawking area law. Using holographic entanglement entropy calculations, we…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-15 Robert C. Myers , Razieh Pourhasan , Michael Smolkin

We compute the entanglement entropy of minimally coupled scalar fields on subtracted geometry black hole backgrounds, focusing on the logarithmic corrections. We notice that matching between the entanglement entropy of original black holes…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-22 Mirjam Cvetic , Zain H. Saleem , Alejandro Satz

We estimate the canonical entropy of a quantum black hole by counting its quasi-normal modes. We first show that the partition function of a classical black hole, evaluated by counting the quasi-normal modes with a thermodyanmic Boltzmann…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-05-03 Naritaka Oshita , Niayesh Afshordi

We show that a geometrical notion of entropy, definable in flat space, governs the first quantum correction to the Bekenstein-Hawking black hole entropy. We describe two methods for calculating this entropy -- a straightforward Hamiltonian…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-09-06 Curtin Callan , Frank Wilczek