Topological Entanglement Entropy in Chern-Simons Theories and Quantum Hall Fluids
High Energy Physics - Theory
2009-12-15 v1 Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
Abstract
We compute directly the entanglement entropy of spatial regions in Chern-Simons gauge theories in 2+1 dimensions using surgery. We use these results to determine the universal topological piece of the entanglement entropy for Abelian and non-Abelian quantum Hall fluids.
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@article{arxiv.0802.3231,
title = {Topological Entanglement Entropy in Chern-Simons Theories and Quantum Hall Fluids},
author = {Shiying Dong and Eduardo Fradkin and Robert G. Leigh and Sean Nowling},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0802.3231},
year = {2009}
}
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