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We argue that the entropy of a black hole is due to the entanglement of matter fields and gravitons across the horizon. While the entanglement entropy of the vacuum is divergent because of UV correlations, we show that low-energy…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-01-08 Eugenio Bianchi

The quantum theory of near horizon regions of spacetimes with classical spatially flat, homogeneous and isotropic Friedman-Robertson-Walker geometry can be approximately described by a two dimensional conformal field theory. The central…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 Ram Brustein

We investigate the thermodynamics of regular black hole configurations via quantum analogs of entropy and energy -- namely, the entanglement entropy and entanglement energy -- near the event horizon of Bardeen and Hayward black holes.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-06-10 Alessio Belfiglio , S. Mahesh Chandran , Orlando Luongo , Stefano Mancini

In this paper we seek to understand what current knowledge of entanglement entropies suggests about the appropriate way to interpret the covariant entropy bound. We first begin by arguing that just as in the classical case, a universal…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2024-07-31 Emily Adlam

After a brief introduction to the concept of entanglement in quantum systems, I apply these ideas to many-body systems and show that the von Neumann entropy is an effective way of characterising the entanglement between the degrees of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 John Cardy

We demonstrate that the entanglement entropy area law for free fermion ground states and the corresponding volume law for highly excited states are related by a position-momentum duality, thus of the same origin. For a typical excited state…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-03-05 Hsin-Hua Lai , Kun Yang

We propose a simple approach to the calculation of the entanglement entropy of a spherically symmetric quantum system composed of two separate regions. We consider bound states of the system described by a wave function that is scale…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-02-12 Maurizio Melis

This review focuses on the field of quantum entanglement applied to condensed matter physics systems with strong correlations, a domain which has rapidly grown over the last decade. By tracing out part of the degrees of freedom of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-08-11 Nicolas Laflorencie

A thermo field dynamics approach for calculating the entropy of a spacetime is suggested. It is exemplified through the Rindler spacetime, the Milne spacetime, the Boulware spacetime, and the Minkowski spacetime with a moving mirror that…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-11-03 Yu-Zhu Chen , Wen-Du Li , Wu-Sheng Dai

We argue that a unitary description of the formation and evaporation of a black hole implies that the Bekenstein-Hawking entropy is the "entropy of a vacuum": the logarithm of the number of possible independent ways in which quantum field…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-11 Yasunori Nomura , Sean J. Weinberg

I present some general ideas about quantum entanglement in relativistic quantum field theory, especially entanglement in the physical vacuum. Here, entanglement is defined between different single particle states (or modes), parameterized…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Yu Shi

We show that the variation of the ground state entanglement in linear, higher spatial derivatives field theories at zero-temperature have signatures of phase transition. Around the critical point, when the dispersion relation changes from…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-12 Suman Ghosh , S. Shankaranarayanan

The entanglement entropy of a subsystem $A$ of a quantum system is expressed, in the replica method, through analytic continuation with respect to n of the trace of the n-th power of the reduced density matrix $\tr\rho_A^n$. We study the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-03-25 F. Gliozzi , L. Tagliacozzo

We study the holographic entanglement entropy in a (d+1)-dimensional boundary quantum field theory at both the zero and finite temperature. The phase diagrams for the holographic entanglement entropy at various temperatures are obtained by…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-11-28 En-Jui Chang , Chia-Jui Chou , Yi Yang

We express the entropy of a scalar field phi directly in terms of its spacetime correlation function W(x,y) = <phi(x) phi(y)>, assuming that the higher correlators are of "Gaussian" form. The resulting formula associates an entropy S(R) to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-05-15 Rafael D. Sorkin

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

In this brief note, we consider the variation of the entanglement entropy of a region as the shape of the entangling surface is changed. We show that the variation satisfies a Wess-Zumino like integrability condition in field theories which…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-30 Shamik Banerjee

Using a uniformization map we determine the holographic entanglement entropy for states of a Warped Conformal Field Theory dual to a generic vacuum metric in AdS$_3$ gravity with Comp\`ere--Song--Strominger boundary conditions. We point out…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-06-30 Stéphane Detournay , Daniel Grumiller , Max Riegler , Quentin Vandermiers

Recently, several notions of entanglement in time have emerged as a novel frontier in quantum many-body physics, quantum field theory and gravity. We propose a systematic prescription to characterize temporal entanglement in relativistic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-07-29 Michal P. Heller , Fabio Ori , Alexandre Serantes

The entanglement between spatial regions in an interacting Bose-Einstein condensate is investigated using a quantum field theoretic formalism. Regions that are small compared to the healing length are governed by a non-relativistic quantum…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2021-04-28 N. Sánchez-Kuntz , S. Floerchinger