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Gravitational path integral from the deformation
Alexandre Belin, Aitor Lewkowycz, Gabor Sarosi
We study a deformation of large conformal field theories, a higher dimensional generalization of the deformation. The deformed partition function satisfies a fl…
and EE, with implications for (A)dS subregion encodings
Aitor Lewkowycz, Junyu Liu, Eva Silverstein +1
We initiate a study of subregion dualities, entropy, and redundant encoding of bulk points in holographic theories deformed by and its generalizations. This includes bot…
Complexity and the bulk volume, a new York time story
Alexandre Belin, Aitor Lewkowycz, Gabor Sarosi
We study the boundary description of the volume of maximal Cauchy slices using the recently derived equivalence between bulk and boundary symplectic forms. The volume of constant m…
Emergent classical spacetime from microstates of an incipient black hole
Vijay Balasubramanian, David Berenstein, Aitor Lewkowycz +3
Black holes have an enormous underlying space of microstates, but universal macroscopic physics characterized by mass, charge and angular momentum as well as a causally disconnecte…
The boundary dual of the bulk symplectic form
Alexandre Belin, Aitor Lewkowycz, Gábor Sárosi
In this paper, we study the overlaps of wavefunctionals prepared by turning on sources in the Euclidean path integral. For nearby states, these overlaps give rise to a Kahler struc…
Modular Flow as a Disentangler
Yiming Chen, Xi Dong, Aitor Lewkowycz +1
In holographic duality, the entanglement entropy of a boundary region is proposed to be dual to the area of an extremal codimension-2 surface that is homologous to the boundary reg…
Thermalization, Viscosity and the Averaged Null Energy Condition
Luca V. Delacrétaz, Thomas Hartman, Sean A. Hartnoll +1
We explore the implications of the averaged null energy condition for thermal states of relativistic quantum field theories. A key property of such thermal states is the thermaliza…
The Holographic Shape of Entanglement and Einstein's Equations
Aitor Lewkowycz, Onkar Parrikar
We study shape-deformations of the entanglement entropy and the modular Hamiltonian for an arbitrary subregion and state (with a smooth dual geometry) in a holographic conformal fi…
Inside Out: Meet The Operators Inside The Horizon
Ahmed Almheiri, Tarek Anous, Aitor Lewkowycz
Based on the work of Heemskerk, Marolf, Polchinski and Sully (HMPS), we study the reconstruction of operators behind causal horizons in time dependent geometries obtained by acting…
Entropy, Extremality, Euclidean Variations, and the Equations of Motion
Xi Dong, Aitor Lewkowycz
We study the Euclidean gravitational path integral computing the Renyi entropy and analyze its behavior under small variations. We argue that, in Einstein gravity, the extremality…
Bulk locality from modular flow
Thomas Faulkner, Aitor Lewkowycz
We study the reconstruction of bulk operators in the entanglement wedge in terms of low energy operators localized in the respective boundary region. To leading order in , the d…
A CFT Perspective on Gravitational Dressing and Bulk Locality
Aitor Lewkowycz, Gustavo J. Turiaci, Herman Verlinde
We revisit the construction of local bulk operators in AdS/CFT with special focus on gravitational dressing and its consequences for bulk locality. Specializing to 2+1-dimensions,…
Deriving covariant holographic entanglement
Xi Dong, Aitor Lewkowycz, Mukund Rangamani
We provide a gravitational argument in favour of the covariant holographic entanglement entropy proposal. In general time-dependent states, the proposal asserts that the entangleme…
Relative entropy equals bulk relative entropy
Daniel L. Jafferis, Aitor Lewkowycz, Juan Maldacena +1
We consider the gravity dual of the modular Hamiltonian associated to a general subregion of a boundary theory. We use it to argue that the relative entropy of nearby states is giv…
Universality in the geometric dependence of Renyi entropy
Aitor Lewkowycz, Eric Perlmutter
We derive several new results for Renyi entropy, , across generic entangling surfaces. We establish a perturbative expansion of the Renyi entropy, valid in generic quantum fie…
Renyi entropy, stationarity, and entanglement of the conformal scalar
Jeongseog Lee, Aitor Lewkowycz, Eric Perlmutter +1
We extend previous work on the perturbative expansion of the Renyi entropy, , around for a spherical entangling surface in a general CFT. Applied to conformal scalar fie…
Exact results for the entanglement entropy and the energy radiated by a quark
Aitor Lewkowycz, Juan Maldacena
We consider a spherical region with a heavy quark in the middle. We compute the extra entanglement entropy due to the presence of a heavy quark both in Super Yang Mil…
Quantum corrections to holographic entanglement entropy
Thomas Faulkner, Aitor Lewkowycz, Juan Maldacena
We consider entanglement entropy in quantum field theories with a gravity dual. In the gravity description, the leading order contribution comes from the area of a minimal surface,…
Generalized gravitational entropy
Aitor Lewkowycz, Juan Maldacena
We consider classical Euclidean gravity solutions with a boundary. The boundary contains a non-contractible circle. These solutions can be interpreted as computing the trace of a d…
Observations on entanglement entropy in massive QFT's
Aitor Lewkowycz, Robert C. Myers, Michael Smolkin
We identify various universal contributions to the entanglement entropy for massive free fields. As well as the `area' terms found in [1], we find other geometric contributions of…
Holographic Entanglement Entropy and Confinement
Aitor Lewkowycz
We study the phase transition in the holographic entanglement entropy for various confining models. This transition occurs for the entanglement entropy of a strip at a critical val…
Exact results for static and radiative fields of a quark in N=4 super Yang-Mills
Bartomeu Fiol, Blai Garolera, Aitor Lewkowycz
In this work (which supersedes our previous preprint arXiv:1112.2345) we determine the expectation value of the N=4$ SU(N) SYM Lagrangian density operator in the presence of an inf…
Gluonic fields of a static particle to all orders in 1/N
Bartomeu Fiol, Blai Garolera, Aitor Lewkowycz
We determine the expectation value of the gauge invariant operator Tr [F^2+... ] for N=4 SU(N) SYM, in the presence of an infinitely heavy static particle in the symmetric represen…