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The Aharonov-Bohm Effect on Entanglement Entropy in Conformal Field Theory

High Energy Physics - Theory 2017-09-27 v2 Statistical Mechanics Quantum Physics

Abstract

We consider the Aharonov-Bohm effect on entanglement entropy for one interval in (1+1) dimensional conformal field theory on a one dimensional ring. The magnetic field is confined inside the ring, i.e. there is a Wilson loop on the ring. The Aharonov-Bohm phase factor which is proportional to the Wilson loop is represented as insertion of twist operators. We compute exactly the Renyi entropy from a four point function of twist operators in a free charged scalar field.

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@article{arxiv.1701.00688,
  title  = {The Aharonov-Bohm Effect on Entanglement Entropy in Conformal Field Theory},
  author = {Noburo Shiba},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1701.00688},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

17 pages, 5 figures; v2, added references, the small AB phase limit and the UV cutoff dependence of Renyi entropy are revised