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Renyi Entropy for Local Quenches in 2D CFTs from Numerical Conformal Blocks

High Energy Physics - Theory 2018-03-14 v3 Statistical Mechanics Strongly Correlated Electrons Quantum Physics

Abstract

We study the time evolution of Renyi entanglement entropy for locally excited states in two dimensional large central charge CFTs. It generically shows a logarithmical growth and we compute the coefficient of logt\log t term. Our analysis covers the entire parameter regions with respect to the replica number nn and the conformal dimension hOh_O of the primary operator which creates the excitation. We numerically analyse relevant vacuum conformal blocks by using Zamolodchikov's recursion relation. We find that the behavior of the conformal blocks in two dimensional CFTs with a central charge cc, drastically changes when the dimensions of external primary states reach the value c/32c/32. In particular, when hOc/32h_O\geq c/32 and n2n\geq 2, we find a new universal formula ΔSA(n)nc24(n1)logt\Delta S^{(n)}_A\simeq \frac{nc}{24(n-1)}\log t. Our numerical results also confirm existing analytical results using the HHLL approximation.

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@article{arxiv.1711.09913,
  title  = {Renyi Entropy for Local Quenches in 2D CFTs from Numerical Conformal Blocks},
  author = {Yuya Kusuki and Tadashi Takayanagi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1711.09913},
  year   = {2018}
}

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24 pages, 8 figures