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Entanglement entropy (EE) is widely used to quantify quantum correlations in field theory, with the well-known result in two-dimensional conformal field theory (CFT) predicting a logarithmic divergence with the ultraviolet (UV) cutoff.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-05-22 Hiromasa Tajima , Riku Yoshimoto , Ryo Nemoto , Yuki Osawa

We show that the anti-de Sitter(AdS) space naturally emerges from the conformal field theory(CFT). The behavior of the leading divergent term in the entanglement entropy implies the underlying AdS geometry. The coefficient of the leading…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-09-22 Seungjoon Hyun , Sang-A Park

Using holographic calculations, we examine a key assumption made in Jacobson's recent argument for deriving Einstein's equations from vacuum entanglement entropy. Our results involving relevant operators with low conformal dimensions seem…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-11-14 Horacio Casini , Damian A. Galante , Robert C. Myers

We review the conformal field theory approach to entanglement entropy. We show how to apply these methods to the calculation of the entanglement entropy of a single interval, and the generalization to different situations such as finite…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-12-08 Pasquale Calabrese , John Cardy

We consider entanglement entropy between two halves of space separated by a plane, in the theory of free photon in 3+1 dimensions. We show how to separate local gauge invariant quantities that belong to the two spatial regions. We calculate…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-08-05 Candost Akkaya , Alex Kovner

A deSitter brane-world bounding regions of anti-deSitter space has a macroscopic entropy given by one-quarter the area of the observer horizon. A proposed variant of the AdS/CFT correspondence gives a dual description of this cosmology as…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 Stephen Hawking , Juan Maldacena , Andrew Strominger

We apply the universal method developed in \cite{Jiang:2025jnk} to compute the entanglement entropy between two tangent balls in CFT$_D$. When taking the radius of one ball to infinity, it gives the entanglement entropy between a ball and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-12-09 Jiankun Li , Li Song

Bipartite entanglement entropy of a segment with the length $l$ in $1+1$ dimensional conformal field theories (CFT) follows the formula $S=\frac{c}{3}\ln l+\gamma$, where $c$ is the central charge of the CFT and $\gamma$ is a cut-off…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-12-20 M. A. Rajabpour

We compute the entanglement entropy of the Wilson-Fisher conformal field theory (CFT) in 2+1 dimensions with O($N$) symmetry in the limit of large $N$ for general entanglement geometries. We show that the leading large $N$ result can be…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-02-01 Seth Whitsitt , William Witczak-Krempa , Subir Sachdev

We study entanglement entropy in gravity theory with quantum effects. A simplest model is a two dimensional Einstein-Hilbert action . We use an $n$-sheet manifold to obtain an area term of entanglement entropy by summing over all background…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-09-12 Chen-Te Ma

A scalar field in the ground state, when partially hidden from observation by a spherical boundary, acquires entanglement entropy $S$ proportional to the area of the surface. This area law is well established in flat space, where it follows…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-10-01 Katja Ried

Using the proposal for holographic entanglement entropy in higher derivative gravities, we compute holographic entanglement entropy for the conformal gravity in four dimensions which turns out to be finite. However, if one subtracts the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-03-05 Mohsen Alishahiha , Amin Faraji Astaneh , M. Reza Mohammadi Mozaffar

Entanglement entropy obeys a 'first law', an exact quantum generalization of the ordinary first law of thermodynamics. In any CFT with a semiclassical holographic dual, this first law has an interpretation in the dual gravitational theory…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-07-13 Thomas Faulkner , Monica Guica , Thomas Hartman , Robert C. Myers , Mark Van Raamsdonk

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

In this paper, we demonstrate the emergence of nonlinear gravitational equations directly from the physics of a broad class of conformal field theories. We consider CFT excited states defined by adding sources for scalar primary or stress…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-09-13 Thomas Faulkner , Felix M. Haehl , Eliot Hijano , Onkar Parrikar , Charles Rabideau , Mark Van Raamsdonk

We consider deformation of a generic $d$ dimensional ($d\geq 2$) large-$N$ CFT on a sphere by a spin-0 operator which is bilinear in the components of the stress tensor. Such a deformation has been proposed to be holographically dual to an…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-09-26 Aritra Banerjee , Arpan Bhattacharyya , Soumangsu Chakraborty

We study the relative entanglement entropies of one interval between excited states of a 1+1 dimensional conformal field theory (CFT). To compute the relative entropy $S(\rho_1 \| \rho_0)$ between two given reduced density matrices $\rho_1$…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-02-14 Paola Ruggiero , Pasquale Calabrese

We consider entanglement through permeable junctions of $N$ $(1+1)$-dimensional free boson and free fermion conformal field theories. In the folded picture we constrain the form of the general boundary state. We calculate replicated…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-05-31 Michael Gutperle , John D. Miller

It is known that the linearized Einstein's equation around the pure $AdS$ can be obtained from the constraint $ \Delta S = \Delta\left< H \right> $, known as the first law of entanglement, on the boundary $CFT$. The corresponding dual state…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-01-08 Partha Paul , Pratik Roy

We derive the Einstein field equations and black hole entropy from the first law of thermodynamics on a holographic time-like screen. Because of the universality of gravity, the stress tensor on the screen must be independent of the details…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-07-10 Miao Li , Rong-Xin Miao , Jun Meng