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We investigate the behaviors of entanglement entropy in the holographical insulator/superconductor phase transition. We calculate the holographic entanglement entropy for two kinds of geometry configurations in a completely back-reacted…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-12-17 Rong-Gen Cai , Song He , Li Li , Yun-Long Zhang

Topological states of matter are characterized by nonlocal structures that are naturally encoded in the quantum entanglement of many-body wavefunctions. Topological semimetals are short-range entangled states at weak coupling and their…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-02-09 Xiantong Chen , Xuanting Ji , Ya-Wen Sun

In this thesis I present numerical studies of entanglement entropy and the quantum null energy condition in strongly coupled far-from-equilibrium quantum states using holography. I give a careful introduction into the numerical methods used…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-10-03 Christian Ecker

We study a number of (3+1)- and (2+1)-dimensional defect and boundary conformal field theories holographically dual to supergravity theories. In all cases the defects or boundaries are planar, and the defects are codimension-one. Using…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-11-09 John Estes , Kristan Jensen , Andy O'Bannon , Efstratios Tsatis , Timm Wrase

We use a mix of field theoretic and holographic techniques to elucidate various properties of quantum entanglement entropy. In (3+1)-dimensional conformal field theory we study the divergent terms in the entropy when the entangling surface…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-07-13 Igor R. Klebanov , Tatsuma Nishioka , Silviu S. Pufu , Benjamin R. Safdi

The entanglement entropy encodes fundamental characteristics of quantum many-body systems, and is particularly subtle in non-Hermitian settings where eigenstates generically become non-orthogonal. In this work, we find that negative…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-17 Wen-Tan Xue , Ching Hua Lee

The Renyi entropies and entanglement entropy of 1+1 CFTs with gravity duals can be computed by explicit construction of the bulk spacetimes dual to branched covers of the boundary geometry. At the classical level in the bulk this has…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-12-16 Taylor Barrella , Xi Dong , Sean A. Hartnoll , Victoria L. Martin

In this work we revisit the problem of contributions of excited holographic states to the entanglement entropy in two-dimensional conformal field theories. Using the results of replica trick method we find three expressions for these…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-08-16 Radoslav C. Rashkov

For holographic CFT states near the vacuum, entanglement entropies for spatial subsystems can be expressed perturbatively as an expansion in the one-point functions of local operators dual to light bulk fields. Using the connection between…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-07-20 Matthew J. S. Beach , Jaehoon Lee , Charles Rabideau , Mark Van Raamsdonk

Topological holography is a holographic principle that describes the generalized global symmetry of a local quantum system in terms of a topological order in one higher dimension. This framework separates the topological data from the local…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-07-02 Sheng-Jie Huang , Meng Cheng

We study thermalization in the holographic (1+1)-dimensional CFT after simultaneous generation of two high-energy excitations in the antipodal points on the circle. The holographic picture of such quantum quench is the creation of BTZ black…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-10-11 Irina Ya. Aref'eva , Mikhail A. Khramtsov , Maria D. Tikhanovskaya

We derive the holographic entanglement entropy functional for a generic gravitational theory whose action contains terms up to cubic order in the Riemann tensor, and in any dimension. This is the simplest case for which the so-called…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-01-11 Elena Cáceres , Rodrigo Castillo Vásquez , Alejandro Vilar López

We consider holographic entanglement entropy in AdS black hole backgrounds by using the limit of large number of dimensions. By dividing the geometry to two patches (with one patch covering the vicinity of the black hole horizon and another…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-03-27 Parul Jain , Matti Järvinen

The aim of the present letter is to find the holographic entanglement entropy (HEE) in 2D holographic superconductors (HSC). Indeed, it is possible to compute the exact form of this entropy due to an advantage of approximate solutions…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-19 Davood Momeni , Hossein Gholizade , Muhammad Raza , Ratbay Myrzakulov

We develop an approach based on edge theories to calculate the entanglement entropy and related quantities in (2+1)-dimensional topologically ordered phases. Our approach is complementary to, e.g., the existing methods using replica trick…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-06-29 Xueda Wen , Shunji Matsuura , Shinsei Ryu

We consider two measures of entanglement, the logarithmic negativity and the entanglement entropy, between regions of space in excited states of many-body systems formed by a finite number of particle excitations. In parts I and II of the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-08-20 Olalla A. Castro-Alvaredo , Cecilia De Fazio , Benjamin Doyon , István M. Szécsényi

We calculate the vacuum entanglement entropy of Maxwell theory in a class of curved spacetimes by Kaluza-Klein reduction of the theory onto a two-dimensional base manifold. Using two-dimensional duality, we express the geometric entropy of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-11-29 William Donnelly , Aron C. Wall

We study the properties of entanglement in two-dimensional topologically ordered phases of matter. Such phases support anyons, quasiparticles with exotic exchange statistics. The emergent nonlocal state spaces of anyonic systems admit a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-10-17 Parsa Bonderson , Christina Knapp , Kaushal Patel

In this work, we study the holographic entanglement entropy of two dimensional $T\bar{T}$-deformed conformal field theory. We compute the correction due to the deformation up to the leading order of the deformation parameter in the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-08-17 M. R. Setare , S. N. Sajadi

We study the evolution of entanglement entropy in a 2-dimensional equilibration process that has a holographic description in terms of a Vaidya geometry. It models a unitary evolution in which the field theory starts in a pure state, its…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-12-06 Javier Abajo-Arrastia , Joao Aparicio , Esperanza Lopez