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For quantum gravity states associated to open spin network graphs, we study how the entanglement entropy of the boundary degrees of freedom (spins on open edges) is affected by the bulk data, specifically by its combinatorial structure and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-03-14 Goffredo Chirco , Eugenia Colafranceschi , Daniele Oriti

We study the entanglement contour, a quasi-local measure of entanglement, and propose a generic formula for the contour in 1+1d quantum systems. We use this formalism to investigate the real space entanglement structure of various static…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-07-18 Jonah Kudler-Flam , Ian MacCormack , Shinsei Ryu

In this article we investigate aspects of entanglement entropy and mutual information in a large-N strongly coupled noncommutative gauge theory, both at zero and at finite temperature. Using the gauge-gravity duality and the Ryu-Takayanagi…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-01-29 Willy Fischler , Arnab Kundu , Sandipan Kundu

In this paper we study the holographic entanglement entropy in a large N noncommutative gauge field theory with two $\theta$ parameters by Ryu-Takayanagi prescription (RT-formula). We discuss what contributions the presence of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-12-16 Tuo Jia , Zhaojie Xu

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

This dissertation reviews several recent advances at the intersection of quantum information and holography. In holography, properties of quantum systems admit a gravitational interpretation via the AdS/CFT correspondence. For holographic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-05 William Munizzi

The Ryu-Takayanagi conjecture establishes a remarkable connection between quantum systems and geometry. Specifically, it relates the entanglement entropy to minimal surfaces within the setting of AdS/CFT correspondence. This Letter shows…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-03-14 Stefan Kehrein

Quantum corrections to holographic entanglement entropy require knowledge of the bulk quantum state. In this paper, we derive a novel dual prescription for the generalized entropy that allows us to interpret the leading quantum corrections…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-02-25 Cesar A. Agón , Juan F. Pedraza

We study the entropy of static, spherically symmetric black holes in diffeomorphism-invariant theories with nonminimal matter--curvature couplings, using the covariant phase space formalism. For regular bifurcate Killing horizons, the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-22 Jia-Zhou Liu , Shan-Ping Wu , Shao-Wen Wei , Yu-Xiao Liu

We study minimal co-dimension-2 surfaces in the asymptotically flat background of extremal 3-brane solutions in ten-dimensional type IIB supergravity. A conjectured open-closed string duality combined with the Ryu-Takayanagi prescription…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-01-13 Vasilis Niarchos

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

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

The Ryu-Takayanagi prescription can be cast in terms of a set of microscopic threads that help visualize holographic entanglement in terms of distillation of EPR pairs. While this framework has been exploited for regions with a high degree…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-09-15 Umut Gürsoy , Juan F. Pedraza , Guim Planella Planas

In this paper, we study the holographic quantum entanglement structure in the finite-temperature CFT state/planar BTZ black hole correspondence from the perspective of entanglement threads. Unlike previous studies based on bit threads,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-09-15 Yi-Yu Lin , Dong-Yu Fang , Jie-Chen Jin , Chen-Ye Li

I argue that a version of the quantum-corrected Ryu-Takayanagi formula holds in any quantum error-correcting code. I present this result as a series of theorems of increasing generality, with the final statement expressed in the language of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-08-02 Daniel Harlow

The concept of the generalized entanglement wedge was recently proposed by Bousso and Penington, which states that any bulk gravitational region $a$ possesses an associated generalized entanglement wedge $E(a)\supset a$ on a static Cauchy…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-08-16 Dong-Hui Du , Jia-Rui Sun

In this work we investigate holographic spacelike and timelike entanglement entropy using the Ryu-Takayanagi prescription, for slab-shaped and ball-shaped entangling regions. We work with an infinite family of 10-dimensional Type IIB…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-01-09 Jonathan Whittle

We use the formalism of geodesic Witten diagrams to study the holographic realization of the conformal block expansion for entanglement entropy of two disjoint intervals. The agreement between the Ryu-Takayanagi formula and the identity…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-07-24 Andrea Prudenziati

Progress in identifying the bulk microstate interpretation of the Ryu-Takayanagi formula requires understanding how to define entanglement entropy in the bulk closed string theory. Unfortunately, entanglement and Hilbert space factorization…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-11-17 William Donnelly , Yikun Jiang , Manki Kim , Gabriel Wong

Recently, an effective {\it membrane theory} was proposed that describes the ``hydrodynamic'' regime of the entanglement dynamics for general chaotic systems. Motivated by the new {\it bit threads} formulation of holographic entanglement…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-11-29 Cesar A. Agón , Márk Mezei