Entanglement entropy of a Maxwell field on the sphere
Abstract
We compute the logarithmic coefficient of the entanglement entropy on a sphere for a Maxwell field in dimensions. In spherical coordinates the problem decomposes into one dimensional ones along the radial coordinate for each angular momentum. We show the entanglement entropy of a Maxwell field is equivalent to the one of two identical massless scalars from which the mode of has been removed. This shows the relation between the logarithmic coefficient in the entropy for a Maxwell field , the one for a massless scalar , and the logarithmic coefficient for a scalar with Dirichlet boundary condition at the origin. Using the accepted values for these coefficients and we get , which coincides with Dowker's calculation, but does not match the coefficient in the trace anomaly for a Maxwell field. We have numerically evaluated these three numbers , and , verifying the relation, as well as checked they coincide with the corresponding logarithmic term in mutual information of two concentric spheres.
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@article{arxiv.1512.06182,
title = {Entanglement entropy of a Maxwell field on the sphere},
author = {Horacio Casini and Marina Huerta},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1512.06182},
year = {2016}
}
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18 pages, 5 figures