Supersymmetric Renyi Entropy
High Energy Physics - Theory
2015-06-16 v1
Abstract
We consider 3d N>= 2 superconformal field theories on a branched covering of a three-sphere. The Renyi entropy of a CFT is given by the partition function on this space, but conical singularities break the supersymmetry preserved in the bulk. We turn on a compensating R-symmetry gauge field and compute the partition function using localization. We define a supersymmetric observable, called the super Renyi entropy, parametrized by a real number q. We show that the super Renyi entropy is duality invariant and reduces to entanglement entropy in the q -> 1 limit. We provide some examples.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1306.2958,
title = {Supersymmetric Renyi Entropy},
author = {Tatsuma Nishioka and Itamar Yaakov},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1306.2958},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
39 pages, 4 figures