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We study the entanglement entropy of a general region in a theory of induced gravity using holographic calculations. In particular we use holographic entanglement entropy prescription of Ryu-Takayanagi in the context of the Randall-Sundrum…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-19 Razieh Pourhasan

In this paper we seek to understand what current knowledge of entanglement entropies suggests about the appropriate way to interpret the covariant entropy bound. We first begin by arguing that just as in the classical case, a universal…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2024-07-31 Emily Adlam

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 define a relational notion of a subsystem in theories of matrix quantum mechanics and show how the corresponding entanglement entropy can be given as a minimisation, exhibiting many similarities to the Ryu-Takayanagi formula. Our…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-06-17 Jackson R. Fliss , Alexander Frenkel , Sean A. Hartnoll , Ronak M Soni

We study the entanglement entropy in confining theories with gravity duals using the holographic prescription of Ryu and Takayanagi. The entanglement entropy between a region and its complement is proportional to the minimal area of a bulk…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-18 Ari Pakman , Andrei Parnachev

We argue that the usual notions of thermodynamic and entanglement entropy have novel analogs in the context of higher spin theories. In particular, the Wald and Ryu-Takayanagi formulas have natural higher spin extensions that we work out…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-19 Eliot Hijano , Per Kraus

We explore holographic entanglement entropy for Minkowski spacetime in three and four dimensions. Under some general assumptions on the putative holographic dual, the entanglement entropy associated to a special class of subregions can be…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-12-10 Victor Godet , Charles Marteau

We calculate the topological entanglement entropy in bilayer quantum Hall systems, dividing the set of quantum numbers into four parts. This topological entanglement entropy allows us to draw a phase diagram in the parameter space of layer…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-16 Myung-Hoon Chung

We study entanglement entropy for slab like regions in quantum field theories, using their holographic duals. We focus on the transition between space like and time like separations. By considering boosted subsystems in conformal and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-09-19 Carlos Nunez , Dibakar Roychowdhury

By fully exploiting the existence of the unitarily inequivalent representations of quantum fields, we exhibit the entanglement between inner and outer particles, with respect to the event horizon of a black hole. We compute the entanglement…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-09-06 A. Iorio , G. Lambiase , G. Vitiello

We study a class of quantum states involving multiple entangled CFTs in AdS$_3$/CFT$_2$, associated with multi-boundary black hole geometries, and demonstrate that the Ryu-Takayanagi (RT) formula for entanglement entropy can be derived…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-01-01 Ning Bao , Hao Geng , Yikun Jiang

We use the holographic methods to calculate the entanglement entropy for field theories modified by $T\bar{T}$ insertion. Based on the available holographic proposals, this calculation reduces to the holographic computations in AdS with…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-01-26 Kuroush Allameh , Amin Faraji Astaneh , Alireza Hassanzadeh

In this note, we study the first law of entanglement in a boundary conformal field theory (BCFT) dual to warped AdS cut off by a brane. Exploiting the symmetry of boundary-centered half-balls in the BCFT, and using Wald's covariant phase…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-04-22 Sean Cooper , Dominik Neuenfeld , Moshe Rozali , David Wakeham

The Ryu-Takayanagi formula relates entanglement entropy in a field theory to the area of extremal surfaces anchored to the boundary of a dual AdS space. It is interesting to ask if there is also an information theoretic interpretation of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-12-19 Vijay Balasubramanian , Charles Rabideau

In this paper we review the AdS/BCFT proposal of T. Takayanagi for holographic description of systems with boundaries, in particular, boundary conformal field theories (BCFTs). Motivated by better understanding of the proposed duality we…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-12-11 Arthur G. Cavalcanti , Dmitry Melnikov , Madson R. O. Silva

The holographic bit threads are an insightful tool to investigate the holographic entanglement entropy and other quantities related to the bipartite entanglement in AdS/CFT. We mainly explore the geodesic bit threads in various static…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-09-04 Stefania Caggioli , Francesco Gentile , Domenico Seminara , Erik Tonni

We introduce a novel method for computing entanglement entropy across surfaces in Loop Quantum Gravity by employing techniques from quantum error correcting codes. In this construction, the redundancy encoded in the gauge invariant subspace…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-03 Sean Tobin

We study the entanglement spectra of bilayer quantum Hall systems at total filling factor nu=1. In the interlayer-coherent phase at layer separations smaller than a critical value, the entanglement spectra show a striking similarity to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-03-22 John Schliemann

Quantum entanglement in 3 spatial dimensions is studied in systems with physical boundaries when an entangling surface intersects the boundary. We show that there are universal logarithmic boundary terms in the entanglement R\'{e}nyi…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-15 Dmitri Fursaev

It was proposed by Ryu and Takayanagi that the entanglement entropy in conformal field theory (CFT) is related through the AdS/CFT correspondence to the area of a minimal surface in the bulk. We apply this holographic geometrical method of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-06-11 Pavel Krtous , Andrei Zelnikov