26 July 2026 to 1 August 2026
University of Maryland, College Park
US/Eastern timezone

QFT Thermodynamics from Entanglement Entropy

28 Jul 2026, 16:10
20m
Margaret Brent A (Adele H. Stamp Student Union)

Margaret Brent A

Adele H. Stamp Student Union

3972 Campus Dr, College Park, MD 20742
Contributed talk Quantum computing and quantum information Quantum computing and quantum information

Speaker

Aatu Rajala (University of Helsinki)

Description

In this talk, I will present our argument that, in the limit of large subregions, the derivative of entanglement entropy (EE) with respect to the size of the entangling region approaches the thermal entropy density for general QFTs. We provide validation for these claims from our lattice computations in the three-dimensional O(4) model at finite chemical potential by showing that in the corresponding limit, the EE derivative satisfies the same Maxwell relation as the thermal entropy density. These results pave the way for extracting thermodynamics from EE data in general QFTs.

Authors

Aatu Rajala (University of Helsinki) Niko Jokela Dr Tobias Rindlisbacher (University of Helsinki)

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