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Entanglement entropies in the abelian arithmetic Chern-Simons theory

Number Theory 2023-12-29 v1 Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

The notion of {\em entanglement entropy} in quantum mechanical systems is an important quantity, which measures how much a physical state is entangled in a composite system. Mathematically, it measures how much the state vector is not decomposable as elements in the tensor product of two Hilbert spaces. In this paper, we seek its arithmetic avatar: the theory of arithmetic Chern-Simons theory with finite gauge group GG naturally associates a state vector inside the product of two quantum Hilbert spaces and we provide a formula for the {\em von Neumann entanglement entropy} of such state vector when GG is a cyclic group of prime order.

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@article{arxiv.2312.17138,
  title  = {Entanglement entropies in the abelian arithmetic Chern-Simons theory},
  author = {Hee-Joong Chung and Dohyeong Kim and Minhyong Kim and Jeehoon Park and Hwajong Yoo},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2312.17138},
  year   = {2023}
}

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