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Bit threads, a dual description of the Ryu-Takyanagi formula for holographic entanglement entropy (EE), can be interpreted as a distillation of the quantum information to a collection of Bell pairs between different boundary regions. In…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-10-19 Jonathan Harper

We propose a new action for entanglement entropy in the framework of the AdS$_{3}$/CFT$_{2}$ correspondence. This action is constructed directly from the entanglement entropy of the CFT$_{2}$, and we show that the Einstein equations of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-04-16 Houwen Wu , Shuxuan Ying

We consider the problem of defining localized subsystems in gauge theory and gravity. Such systems are associated to spacelike hypersurfaces with boundaries and provide the natural setting for studying entanglement entropy of regions of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-11-29 William Donnelly , Laurent Freidel

We derive several new quantum bit thread prescriptions for holographic entanglement entropy, equivalent for static states to the quantum extremal surface formula. Our new prescriptions come in many varieties: vector field-based or based on…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-04-16 Matthew Headrick , Sreeman Reddy Kasireddy , Andrew Rolph

The volume of the region inside the bulk Ryu-Takayanagi surface is a codimension-one object, and a natural generalization of holographic complexity to the case of subregions in the boundary QFT. We focus on time-independent geometries, and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-12-21 Omer Ben-Ami , Dean Carmi

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 propose a universal inequality that unifies the Bousso bound with the classical focussing theorem. Given a surface $\sigma$ that need not lie on a horizon, we define a finite generalized entropy $S_\text{gen}$ as the area of $\sigma$ in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-07-06 Raphael Bousso , Zachary Fisher , Stefan Leichenauer , and Aron C. Wall

With an aim towards understanding the time-dependence of entanglement entropy in generic quantum field theories, we propose a covariant generalization of the holographic entanglement entropy proposal of hep-th/0603001. Apart from providing…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-06-15 Veronika E. Hubeny , Mukund Rangamani , Tadashi Takayanagi

We calculate the contribution from non-conformal heavy quark sources to the entanglement entropy (EE) of a spherical region in N=4 SUSY Yang-Mills theory. We apply the generalized gravitational entropy method to non-conformal probe D-brane…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-02-14 S. Prem Kumar , Dorian Silvani

This paper systematically develops the concept of entanglement threads that characterize the entanglement structure of holographic duality. Behind this framework lies a simple philosophy: holographic quantum entanglement can be visualized…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-08-06 Yi-Yu Lin

Following the work of [2008.03319], we define a generally covariant max-entanglement wedge of a boundary region $B$, which we conjecture to be the bulk region reconstructible from $B$. We similarly define a covariant min-entanglement wedge,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-06-05 Chris Akers , Adam Levine , Geoff Penington , Elizabeth Wildenhain

We characterize the quantum states dual to entanglement wedges in arbitrary spacetimes, in settings where the matter entropy can be neglected compared to the geometric entropy. In AdS/CFT, such states obey special entropy inequalities known…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-04-19 Raphael Bousso , Sami Kaya

We consider the situation when a globally defined four-dimensional field system is separated on two entangled sub-systems by a dynamical (random) two-dimensional surface. The reduced density matrix averaged over ensemble of random surfaces…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-03 Sergey N. Solodukhin

We explore entanglement entropy of a cap-like region for a generic quantum field theory residing in the Bunch-Davies vacuum on de Sitter space. Entanglement entropy in our setup is identical with the thermal entropy in the static patch of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-09-30 Omer Ben-Ami , Dean Carmi , Michael Smolkin

In this paper we use the AdS/CFT correspondence to refine and then establish a set of old conjectures about symmetries in quantum gravity. We first show that any global symmetry, discrete or continuous, in a bulk quantum gravity theory with…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-06-07 Daniel Harlow , Hirosi Ooguri

We extend all known area inequalities obeyed by Ryu-Takayanagi surfaces of AdS boundary regions -- the holographic entropy cone -- to static generalized entanglement wedges of bulk regions in arbitrary spacetimes. The generalized…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-02-07 Raphael Bousso , Sami Kaya

We consider quantum algebras of observables associated with subregions in theories of Einstein gravity coupled to matter in the $G_N\rightarrow 0$ limit. When the subregion is spatially compact or encompasses an asymptotic boundary, we…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-02-07 Kristan Jensen , Jonathan Sorce , Antony Speranza

Entanglement plays a pervasive role nowadays throughout quantum information science, and at the same time provides a bridging notion between quantum information science and fields as diverse as condensed-matter theory, quantum gravity, and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Lorenza Viola , Howard Barnum

In the AdS/CFT correspondence, the causal structure of the bulk AdS spacetime is tied to entanglement in the dual CFT. This relationship is captured by the connected wedge theorem, which states that a bulk scattering process implies the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-07-22 Jacqueline Caminiti , Batia Friedman-Shaw , Alex May , Robert C. Myers , Olga Papadoulaki

Concurrence introduced by Hill and Wootters [Phys. Rev. Lett. 78, 5022 (1997)], provides an important measure of entanglement for a general pair of qubits that is strictly positive entangled states and vanishes for all separable states. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-06-01 S Nibedita Swain , Vineeth S. Bhaskara , Prasanta K. Panigrahi