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R\'enyi entropies are conceptually valuable and experimentally relevant generalisations of the celebrated von Neumann entanglement entropy. After a quantum quench in a clean quantum many-body system they generically display a universal…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-08-04 Bruno Bertini , Katja Klobas , Vincenzo Alba , Gianluca Lagnese , Pasquale Calabrese

We propose a new method to identify transitions from a topological insulator to a band insulator in silicene (the silicon equivalent of graphene) in the presence of perpendicular magnetic and electric fields, by using the R\'enyi-Wehrl…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-02-25 M. Calixto , E. Romera

Quantum information quantifiers are indispensable tools for analyzing strongly correlated systems. Consequently, developing efficient and robust numerical methods for their computation is crucial. We propose a general procedure based on the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-07 Sven Benjamin Kožić , Gianpaolo Torre

In this Thesis, several results in quantum information theory are collected, most of which use entropy as the main mathematical tool. *While a direct generalization of the Shannon entropy to density matrices, the von Neumann entropy behaves…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-10-25 Christian Majenz

The entropic uncertainty relation with quantum side information (EUR-QSI) from [Berta et al., Nat. Phys. 6, 659 (2010)] is a unifying principle relating two distinctive features of quantum mechanics: quantum uncertainty due to measurement…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-07-07 Mario Berta , Stephanie Wehner , Mark M. Wilde

The spinor condensate with spin states degenerated in the ground spin-space provides a unique platform for investigating the edge of quantum mechanics and statistical physics. We study the evolution of the condensate under the scattering of…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2020-04-15 Yixin Xu , Zhongda Zeng , Zbignew Domanski , Zhibing Li

Strong subadditivity goes beyond the tensored subsystem and commuting operator models. As previously noted by Petz and later by Araki and Moriya, two subalgebras of observables satisfy a generalized SSA-like inequality if they form a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-06-05 Li Gao , Marius Junge , Nicholas LaRacuente

Based upon our recent study on the intrinsic connection between the longitudinal weak-boson scatterings and probing the electroweak symmetry breaking (EWSB) mechanism, we reveal the profound physical content of the Equivalence Theorem (ET)…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-02-03 Hong-Jian He , Yu-Ping Kuang , C. -P. Yuan

In this work we consider the simple $Z_2$ symmetric extension to the Standard Model (SM) and proceed to study the nature of electroweak phase transition (EWPT) in the early universe. We show that the nature of the phase transition changes…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-11-30 Arnab Chaudhuri , Jaydeb Das

We study the scaling behavior of the R\'enyi entanglement entropy with smooth boundaries at the phase transition point of the two-dimensional $J-Q_3$ model. Using the recently developed scaling formula [Deng {\it et al.}, Phys. Rev. B…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-09-19 Zehui Deng , Lu Liu , Wenan Guo , Hai-qing Lin

We explore a large class of correlation measures called the $\alpha-z$ R\'enyi mutual informations (RMIs). Unlike the commonly used notion of RMI involving linear combinations of R\'enyi entropies, the $\alpha-z$ RMIs are positive…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-08-27 Jonah Kudler-Flam , Laimei Nie , Akash Vijay

We present a general method for calculating R\'enyi entropies in the ground state of a one-dimensional critical system with mixed open boundaries, for an interval starting at one of its ends. In the conformal field theory framework, this…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-11-12 Benoit Estienne , Yacine Ikhlef , Andrei Rotaru

We study two disjoint universes in an entangled pure state. When only one universe contains gravity, the path integral for the $n^{\text{th}}$ R\'enyi entropy includes a wormhole between the $n$ copies of the gravitating universe, leading…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-09-28 Vijay Balasubramanian , Arjun Kar , Tomonori Ugajin

We study multi-charged moments and symmetry-resolved R\'enyi entropy of free compact boson for multiple disjoint intervals. The R\'enyi entropy evaluation involves computing the partition function of the theory on Riemann surfaces with…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-01-11 Himanshu Gaur , Urjit A. Yajnik

Phase-space versions of quantum mechanics -- from Wigner's original distribution to modern discrete-qudit constructions -- represent some states with negative quasi-probabilities. Conventional Shannon and R\'enyi entropies become…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-23 Adam Brandenburger , Pierfrancesco La Mura

The paper combines two topics belonging to the general theme of the spontaneous symmetry breaking (SSB) in systems including two basic competing ingredients: the self-focusing cubic nonlinearity and a double-well-potential (DWP) structure.…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-11-30 Boris A. Malomed

Symmetry-resolved entanglement entropy provides a powerful framework for probing the internal structure of quantum many-body states by decomposing entanglement into contributions from distinct symmetry sectors. In this work, we apply matrix…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-05-08 Mark J. Arildsen , Valentin Crépel , Nicolas Regnault , Benoit Estienne

Electroweak Symmetry Breaking (EWSB) is known to produce a massive universe that we live in. However, it may also provide an important boundary for freeze-in or freeze-out of dark matter (DM) connected to Standard Model via Higgs portal as…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-07-19 Subhaditya Bhattacharya , Sreemanti Chakraborti , Dipankar Pradhan

We examine the electroweak breaking mechanism in the minimal supersymmetric standard model (MSSM) using the {\em complete} one-loop effective potential $V_1$. First, we study what is the region of the whole MSSM parameter space (i.e.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 B. de Carlos , J. A. Casas

This paper is devoted to the study of the dynamics of two weakly-coupled Bose-Einstein condensates confined in a double-well trap and perturbed by random external forces. Energy diffusion due to random forcing allows the system to visit…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 J. Garnier , F. Kh. Abdullaev