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We identify conditions for the entanglement entropy as a function of spatial region to be compatible with causality in an arbitrary relativistic quantum field theory. We then prove that the covariant holographic entanglement entropy…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-22 Matthew Headrick , Veronika E. Hubeny , Albion Lawrence , Mukund Rangamani

Recently, several notions of entanglement in time have emerged as a novel frontier in quantum many-body physics, quantum field theory and gravity. We propose a systematic prescription to characterize temporal entanglement in relativistic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-07-29 Michal P. Heller , Fabio Ori , Alexandre Serantes

We revisit the issue of defining the entropy of a spatial region in a broad class of quantum theories. In theories with explicit regularizations, working within an elementary but general algebraic framework applicable to matter and gauge…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-09-18 Jennifer Lin , Djordje Radicevic

We examine holographic entanglement entropy with higher curvature gravity in the bulk. We show that in general Wald's formula for horizon entropy does not yield the correct entanglement entropy. However, for Lovelock gravity, there is an…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-06-01 Ling-Yan Hung , Robert C. Myers , Michael Smolkin

We construct a new toy model of the holographic principle, named as holographic qubit threads model, which is an enlightening step towards the issue of spacetime emergence ("it from qubit"). More specifically, we propose for the first time…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-08-30 Yi-Yu Lin , Jie-Chen Jin

Topological quantum many-body systems, such as Hall insulators, are characterized by a hidden order encoded in the entanglement between their constituents. Entanglement entropy, an experimentally accessible single number that globally…

We study the partial entanglement entropy (PEE) aspects of the holographic BCFT setup with an entanglement island, inspired by the holographic triality of the AdS/BCFT setup developed in the recent study on the black hole information…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-07-13 Yi-Yu Lin , Jia-Rui Sun , Yuan Sun , Jie-Chen Jin

The entanglement among scattering particles in an exemplary quantum electrodynamics (QED) process is studied perturbatively. To increase the computational accuracy, we need to consider virtual photon loop diagrams, which lead to infrared…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-08-19 Jinbo Fan , Xuanting Ji , Xi-Jun Ren

In this article, we present a novel approach to investigating entanglement in the context of quantum computing. Our methodology involves analyzing reduced density matrices at different stages of a quantum algorithm's execution and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-14 Ruge Lin

Entanglement entropy for a spatial partition of a quantum system is studied in theories which admit a dual description in terms of the anti-de Sitter (AdS) gravity one dimension higher. A general proof of the holographic formula which…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-02-03 Dmitri V. Fursaev

Characterizing the entanglement of matrix degrees of freedom is essential for understanding the holographic emergence of spacetime. The Quantum Hall Matrix Model is a gauged $U(N)$ matrix quantum mechanics with two matrices whose ground…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-06-08 Alexander Frenkel , Sean A. Hartnoll

Entanglement entropy plays a variety of roles in quantum field theory, including the connections between quantum states and gravitation through the holographic principle. This article provides a review of entanglement entropy from a mixed…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-12-30 Tatsuma Nishioka

We report the creation of a wide range of quantum states with controllable degrees of entanglement and entropy using an optical two-qubit source based on spontaneous parametric downconversion. The states are characterised using measures of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 A. G. White , D. F. V. James , W. J. Munro , P. G. Kwiat

In quantum physics, multiparticle systems are described by quantum states acting on tensor products of Hilbert spaces. This product structure leads to the distinction between product states and entangled states; moreover, one can quantify…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-06 Lisa T. Weinbrenner , Albert Rico , Kenneth Goodenough , Xiao-Dong Yu , Otfried Gühne

We investigate the relations between bit thread, entanglement distillation and entanglement of purification in the holographic framework. Specifically, we give a bit thread interpretation for the one-shot entanglement distillation (OSED)…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-09-02 Yi-Yu Lin , Jia-Rui Sun , Yuan Sun

Bell-network states are loop-quantum-gravity states that glue quantum polyhedra with entanglement. We present an algorithm and a code that evaluates the reduced density matrix of a Bell-network state and computes its entanglement entropy.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-04-24 Eugenio Bianchi , Pietro Dona , Ilya Vilensky

In this paper, we systematically study the measures of multi-partite entanglement with the aim of constructing those measures that can be computed in probe approximation in the holographic dual. We classify and count general measures as…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-02-15 Abhijit Gadde , Vineeth Krishna , Trakshu Sharma

We provide formulas for invariants defined on a tensor product of defining representations of unitary groups, under the action of the product group. This situation has a physical interpretation, as it is related to the quantum mechanical…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2011-11-01 Michael W. Hero , Jeb F. Willenbring , Lauren Kelly Williams

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

In this note a new method for computing the entanglement entropy of a CFT holographically is explored. It consists of finding a bulk background with a boundary metric that has the conical singularities needed to compute the entanglement…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-12-25 Georgios Michalogiorgakis