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Subsystem eigenstate thermalization hypothesis for entanglement entropy in CFT

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We investigate a weak version of subsystem eigenstate thermalization hypothesis (ETH) for a two-dimensional large central charge conformal field theory by comparing the local equivalence of high energy state and thermal state of canonical ensemble. We evaluate the single-interval R\'enyi entropy and entanglement entropy for a heavy primary state in short interval expansion. We verify the results of R\'enyi entropy by two different replica methods. We find nontrivial results at the eighth order of short interval expansion, which include an infinite number of higher order terms in the large central charge expansion. We then evaluate the relative entropy of the reduced density matrices to measure the difference between the heavy primary state and thermal state of canonical ensemble, and find that the aforementioned nontrivial eighth order results make the relative entropy unsuppressed in the large central charge limit. By using Pinsker's and Fannes-Audenaert inequalities, we can exploit the results of relative entropy to yield the lower and upper bounds on trace distance of the excited-state and thermal-state reduced density matrices. Our results are consistent with subsystem weak ETH, which requires the above trace distance is of power-law suppression by the large central charge. However, we are unable to pin down the exponent of power-law suppression. As a byproduct we also calculate the relative entropy to measure the difference between the reduced density matrices of two different heavy primary states.

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Lectures on Semiclassical Methods for Composite Operators

hep-th · 2026-06-09 · unverdicted · novelty 3.0

Lecture notes develop semiclassical methods to compute large-n scaling dimensions of composite operators in CFTs, recovering known results in free theory and deriving one-loop corrections at the Wilson-Fisher fixed point.

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  • Subsystem Thermalization and Work Statistical Characterizations of Floquet Dynamics quant-ph · 2026-07-01 · unverdicted · none · ref 30 · internal anchor

    In a driven non-integrable Ising chain, subsystem reduced density matrices and work statistics both detect the frequency-dependent crossover from prethermal to infinite-temperature Floquet regimes.

  • Lectures on Semiclassical Methods for Composite Operators hep-th · 2026-06-09 · unverdicted · none · ref 115 · internal anchor

    Lecture notes develop semiclassical methods to compute large-n scaling dimensions of composite operators in CFTs, recovering known results in free theory and deriving one-loop corrections at the Wilson-Fisher fixed point.