Entropy Of CFT Research Articles

Holographic entanglement entropy in [formula omitted]-deformed AdS3

In this work, we study the holographic entanglement entropy in AdS3 gravity with the certain mixed boundary condition, which turns out to correspond to TT¯-deformed 2D CFTs. By employing the Chern-Simons formalism and Wilson line technique, the holographic entanglement entropy in TT¯-deformed BTZ black hole is obtained. We also get the same formula by calculating the RT surface. The holographic entanglement entropy agrees with the perturbation result derived from both TT¯-deformed CFTs and cutoff AdS3. Moreover, our result shows that the deformed entanglement entropy for large deformation parameter behaves like the entanglement entropy of CFT at zero temperature. We also consider the entanglement entropy of two intervals and study the effect of TT¯ deformation on phase transition.

Removal of conical singularities from rotating C-metrics and dual CFT entropy

We show how to remove from the rotating C-metric spacetime, which describes accelerating Kerr black holes, both conical singularities. This can be done by embedding the metric into a swirling gravitational universe, through a proper Ehlers transformation. The spin-spin interaction between the external rotational background and the black hole provides the source of the acceleration without the need of rods or strings. The physical properties and entropy of the new solution are studied using near horizon and dual conformal techniques of the Kerr/CFT correspondence. The charged case is also analysed: accelerating Reissner-Nordstrom and Accelerating Kerr-Newman space-times embedded in a swirling universe are also generated.

Partial reduction and cosmology at defect brane

Partial reduction is a Karch-Randall reduction for only part of the AdS region between finite tension brane and zero tension brane. This is interesting in AdS/BCFT where the AdS bulk contains a defect brane. We employ partial reduction for a AdS bulk with a brane evolving as a 2d Friedmann-Robertson-Walker (FRW) cosmology and demonstrate the equivalence between defect extremal surface and island formula for a large subregion fine grained entropy in boundary CFT. We then move to higher dimensions and demonstrate the existence of 4d massless graviton on AdS4 brane in partial reduction. We also propose a partial reduction for a 4d FRW cosmology at defect brane and obtain the Newton constant by computing boundary entropy.

First law of entanglement entropy in AdS black hole backgrounds

The first law for entanglement entropy in CFT in an odd-dimensional asymptotically AdS black hole is studied by using the AdS/CFT duality. The entropy of CFT considered here is due to the entanglement between two subsystems separated by the horizon of the AdS black hole, which itself is realized as the conformal boundary of a black droplet in even-dimensional global AdS bulk spacetime. In $(2+1)$-dimensional CFT, the first law is shown to be always satisfied by analyzing a class of metric perturbations of the exact solution of a $4$-dimensional black droplet. In $(4+1)$-dimensions, the first law for CFT is shown to hold under the Neumann boundary condition at a certain bulk hypersurface anchored to the conformal boundary of the boundary AdS black hole. From the boundary view point, this Neumann condition yields there being no energy flux across the boundary of the boundary AdS black hole. Furthermore, the asymptotic geometry of a $6$-dimensional small AdS black droplet is constructed as the gravity dual of our $(4+1)$-dimensional CFT, which exhibits a negative energy near the spatial infinity, as expected from vacuum polarization.

CFT duals on rotating charged black holes surrounded by quintessence

We demonstrate that Kerr/CFT duality can be extended to rotating charged black hole solution surrounded by quintessence in Rastall gravity. Since Rastall gravity can be considered as $F(R,T) = R + \beta T $ theory with the addition of a matter term, so the gravitational Lagrangian is resemblant to Einstein general relativity. In fact, the resulting central term is coincident to the central term in the general relativity since $ T $ is only a trace of the matter term. We then exhibit that the entropy from CFT of this black hole is equivalent with the Bekenstein-Hawking entropy with no correction related to the Rastall coupling constant. Moreover, when Rastall coupling constant $ \kappa \lambda $ is switched off and $ a $ is approaching zero, we may extend the solution to the 5D black hole solution. It is found that this extremal solution contains twofold CFT duals that we call as $Q$-picture and $ P $-picture. In both pictures, the CFT entropy reproduces exactly the Bekenstein-Hawking entropy for Reissner-Nordstr\"om black hole surrounded by quintessence. The results establish that, for all black holes surrounded by quintessence, the microscopic entropies of the dual CFTs agree with the Bekenstein-Hawking entropies.

A formula for the relative entropy in chiral CFT

We give a general formula for the relative entropy between the vacuum state and a coherent state, that is a state obtained by applying an exponentiated stress energy tensor to the vacuum of a chiral conformal field theory on the lightray. As an application of this result, we verify the QNEC and the Bekenstein Bound.

Bulk geometry from entanglement entropy of CFT

In this paper, we compute the exact form of the bulk geometry emerging from a $(1+1)$-dimensional conformal field theory using the holographic principle. We first consider the $(2+1)$-dimensional asymptotic $AdS$ metric in Poincare coordinates and compute the area functional corresponding to the static minimal surface $\gamma_A$ and obtain the entanglement entropy making use of the holographic entanglement entropy proposal. We then use the results of the entanglement entropy for $(1+1)$-dimensional conformal field theory on an infinite line, on an infinite line at a finite temperature and on a circle. Comparing these results with the holographic entanglement entropy, we are able to extract the proper structure of the bulk metric. Finally, we also carry out our analysis in the case of $\mathcal{N}=4$ super Yang-Mills theory and obtain the exact form of the dual bulk geometry corresponding to this theory. The analysis reveals the behavior of the bulk metric in both the near boundary region and deep inside the bulk. The results also show the influence of the boundary UV cut-off "$a$" on the bulk metric. It is observed that the reconstructed metrics match exactly with the known results in the literature when one moves deep inside the bulk or towards the turning point.

On some (integrable) structures in low-dimensional holography

Recent progress in holographic correspondence uncovered remarkable relations between key characteristics of the theories on both sides of duality and certain integrable models.In this note we revisit the problem of the role of certain invariants in low-dimensional holography. As motivating example we consider first the entanglement entropy in 2d CFT and projective invariants. Next we consider higher projective invariants and suggest generalization to higher spin theories. Quadratic in invariants deformations is considered and conjectured to play role in low-dimensional higher spin holography.

Relative entropy in CFT

Inspired by Edward Witten's questions, we compute the mutual information associated with free fermions, and we deduce many results about entropies for chiral CFT's which are embedded into free fermions, and their extensions. Such relative entropies in CFT are here computed explicitly for the first time in a mathematical rigorous way, and Our results agree with previous computations by physicists based on heuristic arguments; in addition we uncover a surprising connection with the theory of subfactors, in particular by showing that a certain duality, which is argued to be true on physical grounds, is in fact violated if the global dimension of the conformal net is greater than 1.

Extremal vanishing horizon Kerr-AdS black holes at ultraspinning limit

By utilizing the ultraspinning limit we generate a new class of extremal vanishing horizon (EVH) black holes in odd dimensions (d ≥ 5). Starting from the general multi-spinning Kerr-AdS metrics, we show the EVH limit commutes with the ultraspinning limit,in which the resulting solutions possess a non-compact but finite area manifold for all (t, r ≠ r+) = const. slices. We also demonstrate the near horizon geometries of obtained ultraspinning EVH solutions contain an AdS3 throats, where it would be a BTZ black hole in the near EVH cases. The commutativity of the ultraspinning and near horizon limits for EVH solutions is confirmed as well. Furthermore, we discuss only five-dimensional case near the EVH point can be viewed as a super-entropic black hole. We also show that the thermodynamics of the obtained solutions agree with the BTZ black hole. Moreover we investigate the EVH/CFT proposal, demonstrating the entropy of 2d dual CFT and Bekenstein-Hawking entropy are equivalent.

Subsystem eigenstate thermalization hypothesis for entanglement entropy in CFT

We investigate a weak version of subsystem eigenstate thermalization hypothesis (ETH) for a two-dimensional large central charge conformal field theory by comparing the local equivalence of high energy state and thermal state of canonical ensemble. We evaluate the single-interval Rényi entropy and entanglement entropy for a heavy primary state in short interval expansion. We verify the results of Rényi entropy by two different replica methods. We find nontrivial results at the eighth order of short interval expansion, which include an infinite number of higher order terms in the large central charge expansion. We then evaluate the relative entropy of the reduced density matrices to measure the difference between the heavy primary state and thermal state of canonical ensemble, and find that the aforementioned nontrivial eighth order results make the relative entropy unsuppressed in the large central charge limit. By using Pinsker’s and Fannes-Audenaert inequalities, we can exploit the results of relative entropy to yield the lower and upper bounds on trace distance of the excited-state and thermal-state reduced density matrices. Our results are consistent with subsystem weak ETH, which requires the above trace distance is of power-law suppression by the large central charge. However, we are unable to pin down the exponent of power-law suppression. As a byproduct we also calculate the relative entropy to measure the difference between the reduced density matrices of two different heavy primary states.

Exact renormalization group and Sine Gordon theory

The exact renormalization group is used to study the RG flow of quantities in field theories. The basic idea is to write an evolution operator for the flow and evaluate it in perturbation theory. This is easier than directly solving the differential equation. This is illustrated by reproducing known results in four dimensional ϕ4 field theory and the two dimensional Sine-Gordon theory. It is shown that the calculation of beta function is somewhat simplified. The technique is also used to calculate the c-function in two dimensional Sine-Gordon theory. This agrees with other prescriptions for calculating c-functions in the literature. If one extrapolates the connection between central charge of a CFT and entanglement entropy in two dimensions, to the c-function of the perturbed CFT, then one gets a value for the entanglement entropy in Sine-Gordon theory that is in exact agreement with earlier calculations (including one using holography) in arXiv:1610.04233.

A coarse-grained generalized second law for holographic conformal field theories

We consider the universal sector of a dimensional large-N strongly interacting holographic CFT on a black hole spacetime background B. When our CFTd is coupled to dynamical Einstein–Hilbert gravity with Newton constant Gd, the combined system can be shown to satisfy a version of the thermodynamic generalized second law (GSL) at leading order in Gd. The quantity is non-decreasing, where is the (time-dependent) area of the new event horizon in the coupled theory. Our SCFT is the notion of (coarse-grained) CFT entropy outside the black hole given by causal holographic information—a quantity in turn defined in the AdS dual by the renormalized area of a corresponding bulk causal horizon. A corollary is that the fine-grained GSL must hold for finite processes taken as a whole, though local decreases of the fine-grained generalized entropy are not obviously forbidden. Another corollary, given by setting states that no finite process taken as a whole can increase the renormalized free energy with constants set by This latter corollary constitutes a 2nd law for appropriate non-compact AdS event horizons.

Supersymmetric Renyi entropy in CFT 2 and AdS 3

We show that in any two dimensional conformal field theory with (2, 2) supersymmetry one can define a supersymmetric analog of the usual Renyi entropy of a spatial region A. It differs from the Renyi entropy by a universal function (which we compute) of the central charge, Renyi parameter n and the geometric parameters of A. In the limit $n \to1$ it coincides with the entanglement entropy. Thus, it contains the same information as the Renyi entropy but its computation only involves correlation functions of chiral and anti-chiral operators. We also show that this quantity appears naturally in string theory on $AdS_3$.

Large interval limit of Rényi entropy at high temperature

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 from the partition function on $n$-sheeted torus connected with each other along a branch cut. We calculate the partition function by inserting a complete basis across the branch cut. Because of the monodromy condition across the branch cut in the large interval limit, the basis of the states should be the ones in the twist sector. We study the twist sector of a general module of CFT and find that there is an one-to-one correspondence between the twist sector states and the normal sector states. As an application, we revisit the non-compact free scalar theory and discuss the large interval limit of the R\'enyi entropy of this theory by using our proposal. We find complete agreement in the leading and next-leading orders with direct expansion of the exact partition function. Moreover, we prove the relation (\ref{th}) between thermal entropy and the entanglement entropy for a generic CFT with discrete spectrum.

The Schwarzschild/CFT Correspondence

In this paper, the holographic description of the Schwarzschild black hole is investigated. Since the Schwarzschild solution could be mapped to the near horizon limit of the Reissner-Nordstrom solution, the dual metric is obtained by using hidden conformal symmetry. Because the near horizon spacetime admits an A d S 2 factor, a well-defined 2D (quantum) gravity, dimensionally reduced from near horizon metric, is elected. It is demonstrated that the dual CFT has a central charge c=96M 3 which is an asymptotic conserved charge of the near horizon solution. As the most important consequence of AdS/CFT correspondence for a black hole, the entropy of Schwarzschild black hole is obtained by using Cardy formula. It is shown that the microscopic entropy of CFT is equal to the macroscopic Bekenstein-Hawking entropy of the Schwarzschild black hole.

A new spin on entanglement entropy

We argue that the usual notions of thermodynamic and entanglement entropy have novel analogs in the context of higher spin theories. In particular, the Wald and Ryu-Takayanagi formulas have natural higher spin extensions that we work out and study. On the CFT side, just as standard entanglement entropy in CFT_2 can be computed from twist field correlators, we demonstrate that by introducing corresponding operators carrying higher spin charge we can precisely reproduce our results from the bulk. We also show that the first law for entanglement entropy implies the linearized field equations for the metric and higher spin fields, generalizing recent work on deriving the linearized Einstein equations from the first law.

Complex entangling surfaces for AdS and Lifshitz black holes?

We discuss the possible relevance of complex codimension-two extremal surfaces to the Ryu–Takayanagi holographic entanglement proposal and its covariant Hubeny–Rangamani–Takayanagi generalization. Such surfaces live in a complexified bulk spacetime defined by analytic continuation. We identify surfaces of this type for BTZ, Schwarzschild–AdS, and Schwarzschild–Lifshitz planar black holes. Since the dual CFT interpretation for the imaginary part of their areas is unclear, we focus on a straw man proposal relating CFT entropy to the real part of the area alone. For Schwarzschild–AdS and Schwarzschild–Lifshitz, we identify families where the real part of the area agrees with qualitative physical expectations for the time-dependence of the appropriate CFT entropy and, in addition, where it is smaller than the area of corresponding real extremal surfaces. It is thus plausible that the CFT entropy is controlled by these complex extremal surfaces.

Microscopic realization of the Kerr/CFT correspondence

Supersymmetric M/string compactifications to five dimensions contain BPS black string solutions with magnetic graviphoton charge P and near-horizon geometries which are quotients of AdS_3 x S^2. The holographic duals are typically known 2D CFTs with central charges c_L=c_R=6P^3 for large P. These same 5D compactifications also contain non-BPS but extreme Kerr-Newman black hole solutions with SU(2)_L spin J_L and electric graviphoton charge Q obeying Q^3 \leq J_L^2. It is shown that in the maximally charged limit Q^3 -> J_L^2, the near-horizon geometry coincides precisely with the right-moving temperature T_R=0 limit of the black string with magnetic charge P=J_L^{1/3}. The known dual of the latter is identified as the c_L=c_R=6J_L CFT predicted by the Kerr/CFT correspondence. Moreover, at linear order away from maximality, one finds a T_R \neq 0 quotient of the AdS_3 factor of the black string solution and the associated thermal CFT entropy reproduces the linearly sub-maximal Kerr-Newman entropy. Beyond linear order, for general Q^3<J_L^2, one has a finite-temperature quotient of a warped deformation of the magnetic string geometry. The corresponding dual deformation of the magnetic string CFT potentially supplies, for the general case, the c_L=c_R=6J_L CFT predicted by Kerr/CFT.

Cardy–Verlinde formula in FRW Universe with inhomogeneous generalized fluid and dynamical entropy bounds near the future singularity

We derive a Cardy-Verlinde-like formula which relates the entropy of the closed FRW universe to its energy, and Casimir energy, for a multicomponent coupled fluid. The generalized fluid obeys an inhomogeneous equation of state. A viscous dark fluid is included, and we include also modified gravity using its fluid representation. It is demonstrated how such an expression reduces to the standard Cardy-Verlinde formula corresponding to the 2d CFT entropy only in some special cases. The dynamical entropy bound for a closed FRW universe with dark components is obtained. The universality of the dynamical entropy bound near a future singularity (of all four types), as well as near the Big Bang singularity, is investigated. It is demonstrated that except from some special cases of Type II and Type IV singularities the dynamical entropy bound is violated near the singularity even if quantum effects are taken into account. The dynamical entropy bound seems to be universal for the case of a regular universe, including the asymptotic de Sitter one.