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Symmetry-resolved entanglement entropy in Wess-Zumino-Witten models

High Energy Physics - Theory 2021-10-18 v2 Statistical Mechanics Quantum Physics

Abstract

We consider the problem of the decomposition of the R\'enyi entanglement entropies in theories with a non-abelian symmetry by doing a thorough analysis of Wess-Zumino-Witten (WZW) models. We first consider SU(2)kSU(2)_k as a case study and then generalise to an arbitrary non-abelian Lie group. We find that at leading order in the subsystem size LL the entanglement is equally distributed among the different sectors labelled by the irreducible representation of the associated algebra. We also identify the leading term that breaks this equipartition: it does not depend on LL but only on the dimension of the representation. Moreover, a loglogL\log\log L contribution to the R\'enyi entropies exhibits a universal form related to the underlying symmetry group of the model, i.e. the dimension of the Lie group.

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@article{arxiv.2106.15946,
  title  = {Symmetry-resolved entanglement entropy in Wess-Zumino-Witten models},
  author = {Pasquale Calabrese and Jérôme Dubail and Sara Murciano},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2106.15946},
  year   = {2021}
}

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31 pages, v2: minor changes