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Entanglement (Renyi) entropies of spatial regions are a useful tool for characterizing the ground states of quantum field theories. In this paper we investigate the extent to which these are universal quantities for a given theory, and to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-03-18 Matthew Headrick , Albion Lawrence , Matthew M. Roberts

Entanglement entropy appears as a central property of quantum systems in broad areas of physics. However, its precise value is often sensitive to unknown microphysics, rendering it incalculable. By considering parametric dependence on…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-02-09 Mark P. Hertzberg , Frank Wilczek

We compute the entanglement entropy of a free massive Dirac field between two causally disconnected open charts in de Sitter space. We first derive the Bunch-Davies vacuum mode functions of the Dirac field. We find there exists no…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-05-22 Sugumi Kanno , Misao Sasaki , Takahiro Tanaka

The entanglement entropy of an arbitrary spacetime region $A$ in a three-dimensional conformal field theory (CFT) contains a constant universal coefficient, $F(A)$. For general theories, the value of $F(A)$ is minimized when $A$ is a round…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-08-26 Pablo Bueno , Horacio Casini , Oscar Lasso Andino , Javier Moreno

In the presence of a sharp corner in the boundary of the entanglement region, the entanglement entropy (EE) and Renyi entropies for 3d CFTs have a logarithmic term whose coefficient, the corner function, is scheme-independent. In the limit…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-08-12 Henriette Elvang , Marios Hadjiantonis

We study the universal scaling behavior of the entanglement entropy of critical theories in $2+1$ dimensions. We specially consider two fermionic scale-invariant models, free massless Dirac fermions and a model of fermions with quadratic…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-02-24 Xiao Chen , Gil Young Cho , Thomas Faulkner , Eduardo Fradkin

We investigate the entanglement entropy in the Integer Quantum Hall effect in the presence of an edge, performing an exact calculation directly from the microscopic two-dimensional wavefunction. The edge contribution is shown to coincide…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-03-20 Benoit Estienne , Jean-Marie Stéphan

We compute the leading correction to entanglement entropy in $T\bar{T}$ deformed massive QFTs. We show that both for massive scalar and Dirac fermion, the leading order correction to the entanglement entropy of half-space comes from the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-05-10 Shachar Ashkenazi , Soumangsu Chakraborty , Zhanyu Ma , Tom Shachar

We present a simple exactly solvable quantum mechanical example of the global anomaly in an $O(3)$ model with an odd number of fermionic triplets coupled to a gauge field on a circle. Because the fundamental group is non-trivial, $\pi_1…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-08-17 Minos Axenides , Andrei Johansen , Holger Bech Nielsen

We compute the entanglement entropy for some quantum field theories on de Sitter space. We consider a superhorizon size spherical surface that divides the spatial slice into two regions, with the field theory in the standard vacuum state.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-11 Juan Maldacena , Guilherme L. Pimentel

We study entanglement entropy in theories with gravitational or mixed U(1) gauge-gravitational anomalies in two, four and six dimensions. In such theories there is an anomaly in the entanglement entropy: it depends on the choice of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-07-25 Nabil Iqbal , Aron C. Wall

We study the entanglement Hamiltonian of an interval for the massless Dirac field in an inhomogeneous background on a segment where the same boundary condition at both its endpoints is imposed, and in its ground state. We focus on a class…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-09-29 Erik Tonni , Stefano Trezzi

We consider the theory of $N$ free Dirac fermions with a uniformly winding mass, $m e^{iqx}$, in two spacetime dimensions. This theory (which describes for instance a superconducting current in an $N$-channel wire) has been proposed to have…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-02-23 Sergei Khlebnikov , Akhil Sheoran

We study the entanglement properties of non-Hermitian free fermionic models with translation symmetry using the correlation matrix technique. Our results show that the entanglement entropy has a logarithmic correction to the area law in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-09-22 Yi-Bin Guo , Yi-Cong Yu , Rui-Zhen Huang , Li-Ping Yang , Run-Ze Chi , Hai-Jun Liao , Tao Xiang

We present a thorough analysis of the entanglement entropies related to different symmetry sectors of free quantum field theories (QFT) with an internal U(1) symmetry. We provide explicit analytic computations for the charged moments of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-08-25 Sara Murciano , Giuseppe Di Giulio , Pasquale Calabrese

A formidable perspective in understanding quantum criticality of a given many-body system is through its entanglement contents. Until now, most progress are only limited to the disorder-free case. Here, we develop an efficient scheme to…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-12-01 Qicheng Tang , W. Zhu

We consider entanglement through permeable interfaces in the c=1 (1+1)-dimensional conformal field theory. We compute the partition functions with the interfaces inserted. By the replica trick, the entanglement entropy is obtained…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-12-18 Kazuhiro Sakai , Yuji Satoh

We calculate the universal contribution to the $\alpha$-Renyi entropy from a cubic trihedral corner in the boundary of the entangling region in 3+1 dimensions for a massless free scalar. The universal number, $v_{\alpha}$, is manifest as…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-07-19 Lauren E. Hayward Sierens , Pablo Bueno , Rajiv R. P. Singh , Robert C. Myers , Roger G. Melko

We identify various universal contributions to the entanglement entropy for massive free fields. As well as the `area' terms found in [1], we find other geometric contributions of the form discussed in [2]. We also compute analogous…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-11 Aitor Lewkowycz , Robert C. Myers , Michael Smolkin

The Renyi entropies of a massless Dirac fermion on a circle with chemical potential are calculated analytically at nonzero temperature by using the bosonization method. The bosonization of a massive Dirac fermion to the sine-Gordon model…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-12 Christopher P. Herzog , Tatsuma Nishioka