17–21 Aug 2026
University of Helsinki Main Building
Europe/Helsinki timezone

QFT Thermodynamics from Entanglement Entropy

19 Aug 2026, 16:00
20m
F4050 (4th floor) (University of Helsinki Main Building)

F4050 (4th floor)

University of Helsinki Main Building

University of Helsinki Fabianinkatu 33 Finland
poster Quantum fields in and out of equilibrium and thermalisation Poster Session

Speaker

Aatu Rajala (University of Helsinki)

Description

Entanglement is a defining property of quantum physics and provides a natural way to characterize correlations. Despite some inherent difficulties, there has been considerable advancement in lattice evaluations of entanglement measures, such as entanglement entropy (EE), in QFTs.
In my poster, I will present our argument that, in certain attainable limits, a derivative of EE approaches the thermal entropy density for general QFTs. We provide validation for these claims from our lattice computations in 3d O(4) scalar field theory by showing that in the corresponding limits, the EE derivative satisfies the same Maxwell relation as the thermal entropy density. These results represent a first step towards extracting thermodynamics from lattice evaluations of EE in QCD and other more complicated QFTs.

Author

Aatu Rajala (University of Helsinki)

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