Entanglement entropies in free fermion gases for arbitrary dimension
Quantum Gases
2015-06-03 v1 Statistical Mechanics
High Energy Physics - Theory
Quantum Physics
Abstract
We study the entanglement entropy of connected bipartitions in free fermion gases of N particles in arbitrary dimension d. We show that the von Neumann and Renyi entanglement entropies grow asymptotically as N^(1-1/d) ln N, with a prefactor that is analytically computed using the Widom conjecture both for periodic and open boundary conditions. The logarithmic correction to the power-law behavior is related to the area-law violation in lattice free fermions. These asymptotic large-N behaviors are checked against exact numerical calculations for N-particle systems.
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@article{arxiv.1110.6276,
title = {Entanglement entropies in free fermion gases for arbitrary dimension},
author = {Pasquale Calabrese and Mihail Mintchev and Ettore Vicari},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1110.6276},
year = {2015}
}
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6 pages, 9 figs