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Entanglement Hamiltonians and entropy in 1+1D chiral fermion systems

Statistical Mechanics 2018-08-01 v1 High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

In past work we introduced a method which allows for exact computations of entanglement Hamiltonians. The method relies on computing the resolvent for the projected (on the entangling region) Green's function using a solution to the Riemann-Hilbert problem combined with finite rank perturbation theory. Here we analyze in detail several examples involving excited states of chiral fermions (Dirac and Majorana) on a spatial circle. We compute the exact entanglement Hamiltonians and an exact formula for the change in entanglement entropy due to the introduction of a particle above the Dirac sea. For Dirac fermions, we give the first-order temperature correction to the entanglement entropy in the case of a multiple interval entangling region.

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@article{arxiv.1704.01536,
  title  = {Entanglement Hamiltonians and entropy in 1+1D chiral fermion systems},
  author = {Israel Klich and Diana Vaman and Gabriel Wong},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1704.01536},
  year   = {2018}
}

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22 pages, 3 Figures