Marina Huerta

Marina Huerta was born in 1968 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She studied at the Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA) and then moved to the Instituto Balseiro. She obtained her Ph.D. in physics in the year 2000 after completing a doctoral dissertation on an effective description of the Quantum Hall Effect under the supervision of Guillermo Zemba and Rafael Montemayor. In 2005 and then in 2014, she spent some time at Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study. On the 2014 visit, Huerta researched entanglement entropy which enlightens aspects of quantum field theory inaccessible with any other approach. She was one of the organizers of the workshop 'Quantum Gravity in the Southern Cone' in 2019. == Contributions to physics ==

Huerta's main contributions in theoretical physics are in geometric entropy in quantum field theory, holography, quantum gravity and quantum information theory. She uses interlacing entropy as an indicator of confinement and phase transitions. It is considered the natural order parameter for systems with topological order. Relative entropy's properties give rise to the Bekenstein dimension, energy levels in field theories and the generalized second law. She has provided a new interpretation of the Bekenstein bound using relative entropy and distinguishability of states. == Selected publications ==

• On the RG running of the entanglement entropy of a circle. In: Physical Review D. Band 85, 2012, S. 125016 • Towards a derivation of holographic entanglement entropy. In: Journal of High Energy Physics (JHEP). 1105 (2011) 036 • Entanglement entropy in free quantum field theory. In: Journal of Physics A. Band 42, 2009, S. 504007, Arxiv • A Finite entanglement entropy and the c-Theorem. In: Physics Letters B. Band 600, 2004, S. 142–150 == References ==