Time evolution of entanglement entropy from a pulse

General entanglement scaling laws from time evolution.

We establish a general scaling law for the entanglement of a large class of ground states and dynamically evolving states of quantum spin chains: we show that the geometric entropy of a distinguished block saturates, and hence follows an entanglement-boundary law. These results apply to any ground state of a gapped model resulting from dynamics generated by a local Hamiltonian, as well as, dual...

Evolution of Entanglement Entropy in One-Dimensional Systems

We study the unitary time evolution of the entropy of entanglement of a one-dimensional system between the degrees of freedom in an interval of length l and its complement, starting from a pure state which is not an eigenstate of the hamiltonian. We use path integral methods of quantum field theory as well as explicit computations for the transverse Ising spin chain. In both cases, there is a m...

Evolution of holographic entanglement entropy after thermal and electromagnetic quenches

We study the evolution and scaling of the entanglement entropy after two types of quenches for a 2 + 1 field theory, using a conjectured holographic technique for its computation. We study a thermal quench, dual to the addition of a shell of uncharged matter to four-dimensional anti-de Sitter (AdS4) spacetime, and study the subsequent formation of a Schwarzschild black hole. We also study an el...

Nodal-line entanglement entropy: Generalized Widom formula from entanglement Hamiltonians

Thermal corrections to entanglement entropy from holography

We use holographic techniques to calculate the first thermal correction to the entanglement entropy of a cap-like region of a CFT defined on a sphere, successfully reproducing the field theory result. Since this is an order-one correction to the entropy in the large-N expansion, quantum corrections to the holographic entanglement entropy formula are essential. The bulk calculation is made tract...