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How to calculate the entanglement entropy between two subsystems for a mixed state has remained an important problem. In this paper, we provide a straightforward method, namely the subtraction approach, to solve this problem for generic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-09-19 Xin Jiang , Peng Wang , Houwen Wu , Haitang Yang

Quantifying entanglement properties of mixed states in quantum field theory via entanglement of purification and reflected entropy is a new and challenging subject. In this work, we study both quantities for two spherical subregions far…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-10-04 Hugo A. Camargo , Lucas Hackl , Michal P. Heller , Alexander Jahn , Bennet Windt

In the framework of Quantum Field Theory, we provide a rigorous, operator algebraic notion of entanglement entropy associated with a pair of open double cones $O \subset \tilde O$ of the spacetime, where the closure of $O$ is contained in…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2020-03-18 Roberto Longo , Feng Xu

Recent work has revealed that entanglement entropy growth in conformal field theories (CFTs) can be suppressed when a local operator quench interacts with a mixed-state excitation, providing a dual interpretation in terms of black hole…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-21 Davood Momeni

We study the behavior of bipartite entanglement at fixed von Neumann entropy. We look at the distribution of the entanglement spectrum, that is the eigenvalues of the reduced density matrix of a quantum system in a pure state. We report the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 Paolo Facchi , Giuseppe Florio , Giorgio Parisi , Saverio Pascazio , Kazuya Yuasa

In the framework of Algebraic Quantum Field Theory, several operator algebraic notions of entanglement entropy can be associated with any pair of causally disjoint spacetime regions $\mathcal{S}_A$ and $\mathcal{S}_B$ with positive relative…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-28 Lorenzo Panebianco , Benedikt Wegener

We study the entanglement entropy arising from coherent states and one--particle states. We show that it is possible to define a finite entanglement entropy by subtracting the vacuum entropy from that of the considered states, when the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-28 Eric Benedict , So-Young Pi

Entanglement of pure states of bipartite quantum systems has been shown to have a unique measure in terms of the von Neumann entropy of the reduced states of either of its subsystems. The measure is established under entanglement…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Garry Bowen , Nilanjana Datta

The need to retain the relative phases in quantum mechanics implies an addition law parametrized by a phase of two density operators required for the purification of a density matrix. This is shown with quantum tomography and the Wigner…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 V. I. Man'ko , G. Marmo , E. C. G. Sudarshan , F. Zaccaria

We study fidelity and fidelity susceptibility by addition of entanglement of entropy in the one-dimensional quantum compass model in a transverse magnetic field numerically. The whole four recognized gapped regions in the ground state phase…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-06-13 Mostafa Motamedifar , Somayyeh Nemati , Saeed Mahdavifar , Saber Farjami Shayesteh

The entanglement entropy of a pure quantum state of a bipartite system is defined as the von Neumann entropy of the reduced density matrix obtained by tracing over one of the two parts. Critical ground states of local Hamiltonians in one…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-09-08 Eduardo Fradkin

We study odd entanglement entropy (odd entropy in short), a candidate of measure for mixed states holographically dual to the entanglement wedge cross section, in two-dimensional free scalar field theories. Our study is restricted to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-12-02 Ali Mollabashi , Kotaro Tamaoka

We present a proposal for entanglement purification of the continuous-variable quantum state of two propagating optical fields. The scheme is based on letting each field interact with a local node, an atomic ensemble, whose internal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 Stojan Rebic , Stefano Mancini , Giovanna Morigi , David Vitali

We study the dynamics of entanglement entropy for weakly excited states in conformal field theories by using the AdS/CFT. This is aimed at a first step to find a counterpart of Einstein equation in the CFT language. In particular, we point…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-08-09 Masahiro Nozaki , Tokiro Numasawa , Andrea Prudenziati , Tadashi Takayanagi

The Von Neumann entropy of reduced states is a measure of bipartite entanglement. Despite its name, the entanglement entropy cannot by itself be used as a resource for creating thermodynamic heat flows. In order to extract heat from an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-04 Lisa Lenstra , Jasper van Wezel

We study one-dimensional systems of $N$ particles in a one-dimensional harmonic trap with an inverse power law interaction $\sim|x|^{-d}$. Within the framework of the harmonic approximation we derive, in the strong interaction limit, the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-07-18 Przemyslaw Koscik

It is pointed out that the entanglement entropy of quantum fields near the horizon of a two-dimensional black hole can be derived by means of the conformal field theory. This can be done in a way analogous to the computation of the entropy…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Dmitri V. Fursaev

The AdS/CFT correspondence relates quantum entanglement between boundary Conformal Field Theories and geometric connections in the dual asymptotically Anti-de Sitter space-time. We consider entangled states in the n-fold tensor product of a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-04-05 Vijay Balasubramanian , Patrick Hayden , Alexander Maloney , Donald Marolf , Simon F. Ross

The entanglement of a pure state of a pair of quantum systems is defined as the entropy of either member of the pair. The entanglement of formation of a mixed state is defined as the minimum average entanglement of an ensemble of pure…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-01-23 William K. Wootters

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