activity
20132026
most citedIsland in the Presence of Higher Derivative Terms

111 citations · 513 across the 25 of their papers we have counts for

collaborators

25 papers

hep-th2026

Freezing Swampland: A Krylov Complexity Diagnostic for the Weak Gravity Conjecture

Amin Faraji Astaneh, Reza Ghomi Shurkaie

We propose a quantum-information-theoretic perspective on the Weak Gravity Conjecture through the behavior of Krylov spread complexity. For a charged thermofield double state holog…

hep-th2026

Krylov Complexity for Time-Dependent Hamiltonians

Amin Faraji Astaneh, Parsa Kafashi

We investigate Krylov spread complexity for states evolving under time-dependent Hamiltonians. For periodically driven systems, we formulate the problem within Floquet theory and s…

hep-th2025

Generalized Krylov Complexity

Amin Faraji Astaneh, Niloofar Vardian

We extend the concept of Krylov complexity to include general unitary evolutions involving multiple generators. This generalization enables us to formulate a framework for generali…

hep-th2025

Average Spread Complexity and the Higher-Order Level Spacing

Amin Faraji Astaneh, Niloofar Vardian

We investigate the spread complexity of a generic two-level subsystem of a larger system to analyze the influence of energy level statistics, comparing chaotic and integrable syste…

hep-th2024

Quantum Complexity of -deformation and Its Implications

Amin Faraji Astaneh

We employ holography to calculate the quantum complexity of -deformation, utilizing the complexity equals volume (CV) and the complexity equals action (CA) proposals with…

hep-th2024

Holographic Action Principle for -deformation

Amin Faraji Astaneh

We explore the action principle for the holographic -deformation. We develop a scheme in which one can holographically reproduce the action of the Liouville theory deform…

hep-th2023

Fermions, boundaries and conformal and chiral anomalies in and dimensions

Amin Faraji Astaneh, Sergey N. Solodukhin

In the presence of boundaries, the quantum anomalies acquire additional boundary terms. In odd dimensions the integrated conformal anomaly, for which the bulk contribution is known…

hep-th2022

Energy of Decomposition and Entanglement Thermodynamics for -deformation

Kuroush Allameh, Amin Faraji Astaneh

We have presented a set of laws of entanglement thermodynamics for -deformed CFTs and in general for -deformed field theories. In particular, the first law of this s…

hep-th2021★ 18 cited

Aspects of Holographic Entanglement Entropy for -deformed CFTs

Kuroush Allameh, Amin Faraji Astaneh, Alireza Hassanzadeh

We use the holographic methods to calculate the entanglement entropy for field theories modified by insertion. Based on the available holographic proposals, this calcula…

hep-th2021★ 15 cited

Boundary conformal invariants and the conformal anomaly in five dimensions

Amin Faraji Astaneh, Sergey N. Solodukhin

In odd dimensions the integrated conformal anomaly is entirely due to the boundary terms \cite{Solodukhin:2015eca}. In this paper we present a detailed analysis of the anomaly in f…

hep-th2020★ 31 cited

On Free Energy for Deformed JT Gravity

Mohsen Alishahiha, Amin Faraji Astaneh, Ghadir Jafari +2

In this paper, we study a particular deformation of the Jackiw-Teitelboim gravity recently considered by Maxfield, Turiaci and independently by Witten. We will compute the partitio…

hep-th2020★ 111 cited

Island in the Presence of Higher Derivative Terms

Mohsen Alishahiha, Amin Faraji Astaneh, Ali Naseh

Using extended island formula we compute entanglement entropy of Hawking radiation for black hole solutions of certain gravitational models containing higher derivative terms. To b…

hep-th2018★ 98 cited

Complexity Growth with Lifshitz Scaling and Hyperscaling Violation

Mohsen Alishahiha, Amin Faraji Astaneh, M. Reza Mohammadi Mozaffar +1

Using complexity=action proposal we study the growth rate of holographic complexity for Lifshitz and hyperscaling violating geometries. We will consider both one and two sided blac…

hep-th2017★ 37 cited

Holographic Fidelity Susceptibility

Mohsen Alishahiha, Amin Faraji Astaneh

For a field theory with a gravitational dual, we study holographic fidelity susceptibility for two states related by a deformation of a relevant operator. To do so, we study back r…

hep-th2017★ 19 cited

Holographic calculation of entanglement entropy in the presence of boundaries

Amin Faraji Astaneh, Clement Berthiere, Dmitri Fursaev +1

When a spacetime has boundaries, the entangling surface does not have to be necessarily compact and it may have boundaries as well. Then there appear a new, boundary, contribution…

hep-th2017

Holographic calculation of boundary terms in conformal anomaly

Amin Faraji Astaneh, Sergey N. Solodukhin

In the presence of boundaries the integrated conformal anomaly is modified by the boundary terms so that the anomaly is non-vanishing in any (even or odd) dimension. The boundary t…

hep-th2017★ 91 cited

On Complexity for Higher Derivative Gravities

Mohsen Alishahiha, Amin Faraji Astaneh, Ali Naseh +1

Using "complexity=action" proposal we study complexity growth of certain gravitational theories containing higher derivative terms. These include critical gravity in diverse dimens…

hep-th2015★ 4 cited

Entangling Fractals

Amin Faraji Astaneh

We use the Heat Kernel method to calculate the Entanglement Entropy for a given entangling region on a fractal. The leading divergent term of the entropy is obtained as a function…

hep-th2015★ 28 cited

Entanglement Entropy for Singular Surfaces in Hyperscaling violating Theories

Mohsen Alishahiha, Amin Faraji Astaneh, Piermarco Fonda +1

We study the holographic entanglement entropy for singular surfaces in theories described holographically by hyperscaling violating backgrounds. We consider singular surfaces consi…

hep-th2015

The Wald entropy and 6d conformal anomaly

Amin Faraji Astaneh, Sergey N. Solodukhin

We analyze the Wald entropy for different forms of the conformal anomaly in six dimensions. In particular we focus on the anomaly which arises in a holographic calculation of Henni…

hep-th2014★ 9 cited

Entropy discrepancy and total derivatives in trace anomaly

Amin Faraji Astaneh, Alexander Patrushev, Sergey N. Solodukhin

In this note we address the discrepancy found by Hung, Myers and Smolkin between the holographic calculation of entanglement entropy (using the Jacobson-Myers functional for the ho…

hep-th2014★ 16 cited

Entropy vs Gravitational Action: Do Total Derivatives Matter?

Amin Faraji Astaneh, Alexander Patrushev, Sergey N. Solodukhin

The total derivatives in the gravitational action are usually disregarded as non-producing any non-trivial dynamics. In the context of the gravitational entropy, within Wald's appr…

hep-th2014★ 30 cited

What surface maximizes entanglement entropy?

Amin Faraji Astaneh, Gary Gibbons, Sergey N. Solodukhin

For a given quantum field theory, provided the area of the entangling surface is fixed, what surface maximizes entanglement entropy? We analyze the answer to this question in four…

hep-th2014★ 5 cited

Quantum Local Quench, AdS/BCFT and Yo-Yo String

Amin Faraji Astaneh, Amir Esmaeil Mosaffa

We propose a holographic model for local quench in 1+1 dimensional Conformal Field Theory (CFT). The local quench is produced by joining two identical CFT's on semi-infinite lines.…