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Entanglement entropy of a superflow

High Energy Physics - Theory 2022-02-23 v1 Superconductivity

Abstract

We consider the theory of NN free Dirac fermions with a uniformly winding mass, meiqxm e^{iqx}, in two spacetime dimensions. This theory (which describes for instance a superconducting current in an NN-channel wire) has been proposed to have a higher-spin gravity with scalar matter as the large-NN dual. To order m2m^2, however, thermodynamic quantities in it can be computed using standard general relativity instead. Here, we consider the question if the same is true for the entanglement entropy (EE). By comparing results obtained on two sides of the duality, we find that general relativity indeed accounts correctly for the EE of an interval to order m2m^2 (and all orders in qq).

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@article{arxiv.2111.03593,
  title  = {Entanglement entropy of a superflow},
  author = {Sergei Khlebnikov and Akhil Sheoran},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2111.03593},
  year   = {2022}
}

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15 pages, 1 figure