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We use analytic bootstrap techniques for a CFT with an interface or a boundary. Exploiting the analytic structure of the bulk and boundary conformal blocks we extract the CFT data. We further constrain the CFT data by applying the equation…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-09-21 Parijat Dey , Alexander Söderberg

We study the Renyi and entanglement entropies for free 2d CFT's at finite temperature and finite size, with emphasis on their properties under modular transformations of the torus. We address the issue of summing over fermion spin…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-04 Sagar Fakirchand Lokhande , Sunil Mukhi

The time evolution of entanglement entropy in generic chaotic many-body systems has an effective description in terms of a minimal membrane, characterised by a tension function. For 2d CFTs, a degenerate tension function reproduces several…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-11-26 Hanzhi Jiang , Márk Mezei , Julio Virrueta

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

We compute the entanglement entropy in a 2+1 dimensional topological order in the presence of gapped boundaries. Specifically, we consider entanglement cuts that cut through the boundaries. We argue that based on general considerations of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-01-08 Ce Shen , Jiaqi Lou , Ling-Yan Hung

We compute the holographic entanglement entropy of a thermalized CFT on a time-dependent background in four dimensions. We consider a slab configuration extending beyond the cosmological horizon of a Friedmann-Lemaitre-Robertson-Walker…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-07-27 Vangelis Giantsos , Nikolaos Tetradis

Twist fields are a powerful formal tool to compute R\'enyi entropies in quantum many-body systems, but their conventional formulation in tensor network states involves operations acting on virtual degrees of freedom, which are not directly…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-27 Andrea Bulgarelli , Marco Panero , Paolo Stornati , Luca Tagliacozzo

We discuss entanglement entropy of gapped ground states in different dimensions, obtained on partitioning space into two regions. For trivial phases without topological order, we argue that the entanglement entropy may be obtained by…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2011-12-12 Tarun Grover , Ari M. Turner , Ashvin Vishwanath

We study the timelike entanglement entropy (TEE) in two dimensional conformal field theories (CFT) with gravitational anomalies. We employ analytical continuation to compute the timelike entanglement entropy for a pure timelike interval in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-08-08 Chong-Sun Chu , Himanshu Parihar

The entanglement entropy in three-dimensional conformal field theories (CFTs) receives a logarithmic contribution characterized by a regulator-independent function $a(\theta)$ when the entangling surface contains a sharp corner with opening…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-10-14 Pablo Bueno , Robert C. Myers , William Witczak-Krempa

In this work we study the time evolution of Renyi entanglement entropy for locally excited states created by twist operators in cyclic orbifold $(T^2)^n/\mathbb{Z}_n$ and symmetric orbifold $(T^2)^n/S_n$. We find that when the square of its…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-05-30 Pawel Caputa , Yuya Kusuki , Tadashi Takayanagi , Kento Watanabe

In this note we calculate the holographic entanglement entropy in the presence of a conformal interface for a geometric configuration in which the entangling region ${\cal A}$ lies on one side of the interface. For the supersymmetric Janus…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-01-20 Michael Gutperle , John D. Miller

Gapped interfaces (and boundaries) of two-dimensional (2D) Abelian topological phases are shown to support a remarkably rich sequence of 1D symmetry-protected topological (SPT) states. We show that such interfaces can provide a physical…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-08-24 Luiz H. Santos , Jennifer Cano , Michael Mulligan , Taylor L. Hughes

Characterizing the express power of the Transformer architecture is critical to understanding its capacity limits and scaling law. Recent works provide the circuit complexity bounds to Transformer-like architecture. On the other hand,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Bo Chen , Xiaoyu Li , Yingyu Liang , Jiangxuan Long , Zhenmei Shi , Zhao Song

Using the subtraction approach, we give the bipartite mixed state entanglement entropy in thermal $\text{CFT}_2$. With these entanglement entropies, we examine in detail the holographic duals of different entangling configurations…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-09-01 Xin Jiang , Haitang Yang , Zilin Zhao

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

In this work, a canonical method to compute entanglement entropy is proposed. We show that for two-dimensional conformal theories defined in a torus, a choice of moduli space allows the typical entropy operator of the TFD to provide the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-05-27 M. Dias , Daniel L. Nedel , C. R. Senise

Topologically ordered phases of matter can be characterized by the presence of a universal, constant contribution to the entanglement entropy known as the topological entanglement entropy (TEE). The TEE can been calculated for Abelian…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-07-13 Ramanjit Sohal , Bo Han , Luiz H. Santos , Jeffrey C. Y. Teo

We use holography in order to study the entropy of thermal CFTs on (1+1)-dimensional curved backgrounds that contain horizons. Starting from the metric of the BTZ black hole, we perform explicit coordinate transformations that set the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-09-29 Dimitrios Giataganas , Nikolaos Tetradis

In this paper, we propose a novel expansion to compute the large interval limit of the R\'enyi entropy of 2D CFT at high temperature. Via the replica trick, the single interval R\'enyi entropy of 2D CFT at finite temperature could be read…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-12-16 Bin Chen , Jie-qiang Wu