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We consider the entanglement entropy for the 2D Ising model at the conformal fixed point in the presence of interfaces. More precisely, we investigate the situation where the two subsystems are separated by a defect line that preserves…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-25 Enrico M. Brehm , Ilka Brunner

The information-geometric origin of fidelity susceptibility and its utility as a universal probe of quantum criticality in many-body settings have been widely discussed. Here we explore the metric response of quantum relative entropy (QRE),…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-05-15 Pritam Sarkar , Diptiman Sen , Arnab Sen

We propose a field theoretic framework for calculating the dependence of R\'enyi entropies on the shape of the entangling surface in a conformal field theory. Our approach rests on regarding the corresponding twist operator as a conformal…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-08-24 Lorenzo Bianchi , Marco Meineri , Robert C. Myers , Michael Smolkin

This work explores connections between the quantum relative entropy of two faithful states $\rho,\sigma$ (i.e. full-rank density matrices) and the Kullback-Leibler divergences of classical measures $\mu,\nu$. Here, $\mu$ and $\nu$ are…

Within the framework of relative and absolute quantum field theories (QFTs), we present a general formalism for understanding polarizations of the intermediate defect group and constructing non-invertible duality defects in theories in $2k$…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-06-22 Craig Lawrie , Xingyang Yu , Hao Y. Zhang

Recently, entropy corrections on nonorientable manifolds such as the Klein bottle are proposed as a universal characterization of critical systems with an emergent conformal field theory (CFT). We show that entropy correction on the Klein…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-11-09 Wei Tang , Lei Chen , Wei Li , X. C. Xie , Hong-Hao Tu , Lei Wang

Defects are common in physical systems with boundaries, impurities or extensive measurements. The interaction between bulk and defect can lead to rich physical phenomena. Defects in gapless phases of matter with conformal symmetry usually…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-07-30 Zheng Zhou , Davide Gaiotto , Yin-Chen He , Yijian Zou

Many thermodynamic relations involve inequalities, with equality if a process does not involve dissipation. In this article we provide equalities in which the dissipative contribution is shown to involve the relative entropy (a.k.a.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-18 B. Gaveau , L. Granger , M. Moreau , L. S. Schulman

Unlike the standard entanglement entropy considered in the holographic context, entwinement measures entanglement between degrees of freedom that are not associated to a spatial subregion. Entwinement is defined for two-dimensional CFTs…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-04-22 Johanna Erdmenger , Marius Gerbershagen

Local and category-theoretical entropies associated with an endomorphism of finite length (i.e., with zero-dimensional closed fiber) of a commutative Noetherian local ring are compared. Local entropy is shown to be less than or equal to…

Commutative Algebra · Mathematics 2018-10-15 Mahdi Majidi-Zolbanin , Nikita Miasnikov

We study the relative R\'enyi entropy (RRE) under local quenches in two-dimensional conformal field theories (CFTs), focusing on rational CFTs (RCFTs) and holographic CFTs. In RCFTs, the RRE evolves as a monotonic function over time,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-12-22 Zi-Xuan Zhao , Song He , Hao Ouyang , Hong-an Zeng , Yu-Xuan Zhang

Entanglement is resolved in conformal field theory (CFT) with respect to conformal families to all orders in the UV cutoff. To leading order, symmetry-resolved entanglement is connected to the quantum dimension of a conformal family, while…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-10-10 Christian Northe

We introduce the telescopic relative entropy (TRE), which is a new regularisation of the relative entropy related to smoothing, to overcome the problem that the relative entropy between pure states is either zero or infinity and therefore…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-04-28 Koenraad M. R. Audenaert

We consider the relative configurational entropy per cell S_Delta as a measure of the degree of spatial disorder for systems of finite-sized objects. It is highly sensitive to deviations from the most spatially ordered reference…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 Ryszard Piasecki

The entanglement entropy of a subsystem of a quantum system is expressed, in the replica approach, through analytic continuation with respect to n of the trace of the n-th power of the reduced density matrix. This trace can be thought of as…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-12-18 Michele Caraglio , Ferdinando Gliozzi

The trace over the degrees of freedom located in a subset of the space transforms the vacuum state into a mixed density matrix with non zero entropy. This is usually called entanglement entropy, and it is known to be divergent in quantum…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 H. Casini , M. Huerta

Inspired by the holographic computation of large interval entanglement entropy of two dimensional conformal field theory at high temperature, it was proposed that the thermal entropy is related to the entanglement entropy as…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-01 Bin Chen , Jie-qiang Wu

We examine relative entropy in the context of the higher-spin/CFT duality. We consider 3$d$ bulk configurations in higher spin gravity which are dual to the vacuum and a high temperature state of a CFT with $\mathcal{W}$-algebra symmetries…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-12-30 Shouvik Datta

We study the geometric distribution of the relative entropy of a charged localised state in Quantum Field Theory. With respect to translations, the second derivative of the vacuum relative entropy is zero out of the charge localisation…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-02-20 Roberto Longo

A new upper bound on the relative entropy is derived as a function of the total variation distance for probability measures defined on a common finite alphabet. The bound improves a previously reported bound by Csisz\'ar and Talata. It is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-10-20 Igal Sason , Sergio Verdu