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In this paper, we study the entanglement entropy in a large class of states of two-dimensional conformal field theory in the the large central charge limit. This class of states includes the states created by the insertion of a finite…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-09-21 Bin Chen , Jie-qiang Wu

In this note, I revisit the problem of computing the entanglement entropy of a single interval in the ground state of a 2d CFT. I write the leading-order result in three different ways: once by doing the replica trick with the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-10-25 Jennifer Lin

This note presents a purely geometric construction of the so-called twist-field correlation functions in Conformal Field Theory (CFT), derived from conical singularities. This approach provides a purely mathematical interpretation of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-02-03 Benoit Estienne , Jiasheng Lin

We study the Eigenstate Thermalization Hypothesis (ETH) in chaotic conformal field theories (CFTs) of arbitrary dimensions. Assuming local ETH, we compute the reduced density matrix of a ball-shaped subsystem of finite size in the infinite…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-06-14 Nima Lashkari , Anatoly Dymarsky , Hong Liu

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 propose a codimension two holography between a gravitational theory on a $d+1$ dimensional wedge spacetime and a $d-1$ dimensional CFT which lives on the corner of the wedge. Formulating this as a generalization of AdS/CFT, we explain…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-01-21 Ibrahim Akal , Yuya Kusuki , Tadashi Takayanagi , Zixia Wei

We consider subregion complexity within the AdS3/CFT2 correspondence. We rewrite the volume proposal, according to which the complexity of a reduced density matrix is given by the spacetime volume contained inside the associated…

This thesis reviews the conjectured holographic relation between entanglement and gravity due to Mark van Raamsdonk and collaborators. It is accounted how the linearized Einstein equations both with and without matter in a d+1-dimensional…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-11-30 Rasmus Jaksland

In this note, we explore the possibility that certain high-energy holographic CFT states correspond to black hole microstates with a geometrical behind-the-horizon region, modelled by a portion of a second asymptotic region terminating at…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-09-04 Sean Cooper , Moshe Rozali , Brian Swingle , Mark Van Raamsdonk , Christopher Waddell , David Wakeham

For a given entanglement entropy of QFT, we investigate how to reconstruct its dual geometry by applying the Ryu-Takayanagi formula and the deep learning method. In the holographic setup, the radial direction of the dual geometry is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-12-07 Chanyong Park , Chi-Ok Hwang , Kyungchan Cho , Se-Jin Kim

We provide a field-theoretic method to calculate entanglement entropy of CFT in all dimensions. This method works for entangling surfaces of arbitrary shape. The formalism manifests a field-theoretic proof of the Ryu-Takayanagi formula.

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-01-06 Xin Jiang , Haitang Yang

We demonstrate that, by utilizing the boundary conformal field theory (BCFT) operator algebra of the Liouville CFT, one can express its path-integral on any Riemann surface as a three dimensional path-integral with appropriate boundary…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-12-29 Lin Chen , Ling-Yan Hung , Yikun Jiang , Bing-Xin Lao

In this paper we investigate the holographic R\'enyi entropy of two disjoint intervals on complex plane with small cross ratio $x$ for conformal field theory with $W$ symmetry in the ground state, which could be dual to a higher spin…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-05-20 Bin Chen , Jiang Long , Jia-ju Zhang

Entanglement entropy quantifies the amount of uncertainty of a quantum state. For quantum fields in curved space, entanglement entropy of the quantum field theory degrees of freedom is well-defined for a fixed background geometry. In this…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-10-28 Xi Dong , Xiao-Liang Qi , Zhou Shangnan , Zhenbin Yang

We investigate quantum entanglement of gravitational configurations in 3D AdS gravity using the AdS/CFT correspondence. We derive explicit formulas for the holographic entanglement entropy (EE) of the BTZ black hole, conical singularities…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-20 M. Cadoni , M. Melis

We consider the effects of higher curvature terms on a holographic dual description of boundary conformal field theory. Specifically, we consider three-dimensional gravity with a specific combination of Ricci tensor square and curvature…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-03 Yongjoon Kwon , Soonkeon Nam , Jong-Dae Park , Sang-Heon Yi

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 extend previous work on the perturbative expansion of the Renyi entropy, $S_q$, around $q=1$ for a spherical entangling surface in a general CFT. Applied to conformal scalar fields in various spacetime dimensions, the results appear to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-22 Jeongseog Lee , Aitor Lewkowycz , Eric Perlmutter , Benjamin R. Safdi

In 2006, Ryu and Takayanagi (RT) pointed out that (with a suitable cutoff) the entanglement entropy between two complementary regions of an equal-time surface of a d+1-dimensional conformal field theory on the conformal boundary of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-05-26 Bernard S. Kay

The Ryu-Takayanagi and Hubeny-Rangamani-Takayanagi formulae suggest that bulk geometry emerges from the entanglement structure of the boundary theory. Using these formulae, we build on a result of Alexakis, Balehowsky, and Nachman to show…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-09-04 Ning Bao , ChunJun Cao , Sebastian Fischetti , Cynthia Keeler