Thermal and chemical response from entanglement entropy

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2603.07635v1
• Date: Sun, 08 Mar 2026 13:43:36 GMT
• Title: Thermal and chemical response from entanglement entropy
• Abstract summary: We study entanglement entropy (EE) in interacting quantum field theories at finite density.<n>We show that EE satisfies thermodynamic response relations, including a generalized Maxwell relation linking chemical potential and charge density.
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• Abstract: We study entanglement entropy (EE) in interacting quantum field theories (QFTs) at finite density. We argue that, in the limit of large subregions, the derivative of EE with respect to the size of the entangling region approaches the thermal entropy density, independently of microscopic details. We make this relation explicit using slab-shaped subregions, where the limiting behavior can be directly identified. At finite chemical potential, we show that EE satisfies thermodynamic response relations, including a generalized Maxwell relation linking chemical potential and charge density. We provide strong nonperturbative evidence for these statements in the three-dimensional $\operatorname{O}\left(4\right)$ model, and conjecture that they are generic features of continuum QFTs, establishing a two-way link between entanglement and thermodynamics that opens a route toward extracting the equation-of-state information from entanglement data.

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