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Entanglement entropy in even dimensional conformal field theories (CFTs) contains well-known universal terms arising from the conformal anomaly. Renyi entropies are natural generalizations of the entanglement entropy that are much less…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-06-25 Jeongseog Lee , Lauren McGough , Benjamin R. Safdi

We compute the Entanglement Entropy (EE) of a bipartition in 2D pure non-abelian $U(N)$ gauge theory. We obtain a general expression for EE on an arbitrary Riemann surface. We find that due to area-preserving diffeomorphism symmetry EE does…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-09-15 Andrey Gromov , Raul A. Santos

We investigate the entanglement and the R\'enyi entropies of two electronic leads connected by a quantum point contact. For non-interacting electrons, the entropies can be related to the cumulants of the full counting statistics of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-12 Konrad H. Thomas , Christian Flindt

We propose a field theoretic framework for calculating the dependence of R\'enyi entropies on the shape of the entangling surface in a conformal field theory. Our approach rests on regarding the corresponding twist operator as a conformal…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-08-24 Lorenzo Bianchi , Marco Meineri , Robert C. Myers , Michael Smolkin

We evaluate one-interval R\'enyi entropy and entanglement entropy for the excited states of two-dimensional conformal field theory (CFT) on a cylinder, and examine their differences from the ones for the thermal state. We assume the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-11-29 Feng-Li Lin , Huajia Wang , Jia-ju Zhang

We calculate the shape dependence of entanglement entropy in (5+1)-dimensional conformal field theory in terms of the extrinsic curvature of the entangling surface, the opening angles of possible conical singularities, and the conformal…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-12-12 Benjamin R. Safdi

Despite being a well-established operational approach to quantify entanglement, R\'enyi entropy calculations have been plagued by their computational complexity. We introduce here a theoretical framework based on an optimal thermodynamic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-07-14 Miha Srdinšek , Michele Casula , Rodolphe Vuilleumier

In this paper, we explore the concept of pseudo R\'enyi entropy within the context of quantum field theories (QFTs). The transition matrix is constructed by applying operators situated in different regions to the vacuum state. Specifically,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-05-15 Wu-zhong Guo , Yaozong Jiang

We study the multi-boundary entanglement structure of the state associated with the torus link complement $S^3 \backslash T_{p,q}$ in the set-up of three-dimensional SU(2)$_k$ Chern-Simons theory. The focal point of this work is the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-12-24 Siddharth Dwivedi , Vivek Kumar Singh , Abhishek Roy

Thanks to Pfaffian techniques, we study the R\'enyi entanglement entropies and the entanglement spectrum of large subsystems for two-dimensional Rokhsar-Kivelson wave functions constructed from a dimer model on the triangular lattice. By…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-02-13 Jean-Marie Stéphan , Grégoire Misguich , Vincent Pasquier

Topological order in a 2d quantum matter can be determined by the topological contribution to the entanglement R\'enyi entropies. However, when close to a quantum phase transition, its calculation becomes cumbersome. Here we show how…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-12-24 Roman Orus , Tzu-Chieh Wei , Oliver Buerschaper , Artur Garcia-Saez

We elucidate the topological features of the entanglement entropy of a region in two dimensional quantum systems in a topological phase with a finite correlation length $\xi$. Firstly, we suggest that simpler reduced quantities, related to…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-13 Stefanos Papanikolaou , Kumar S. Raman , Eduardo Fradkin

We consider the target space entanglement in quantum mechanics of non-interacting fermions at finite temperature. Unlike pure states investigated in arXiv:2105.13726, the (R\'enyi) entanglement entropy for thermal states does not follow a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-10-19 Temma Hanyuda , Soichiro Mori , Sotaro Sugishita

We formulate a new ``Wigner characteristics'' based method to calculate entanglement entropies of subsystems of Fermions using Keldysh field theory. This bypasses the requirements of working with complicated manifolds for calculating…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-12-30 Saranyo Moitra , Rajdeep Sensarma

We present a numerical study of a quantum phase transition from a spin-polarized to a topologically ordered phase in a system of spin-1/2 particles on a torus. We demonstrate that this non-symmetry-breaking topological quantum phase…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-06-07 A. Hamma , W. Zhang , S. Haas , D. A. Lidar

The time evolution of entanglement tracks how information propagates in interacting quantum systems. We study entanglement entropy in CFT$_2$ with a time-dependent Hamiltonian. We perturb by operators with time-dependent source functions…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-03-14 Allic Sivaramakrishnan

We compute the R\'enyi entropies of the massless Dirac field on the Euclidean torus (the Lorentzian cylinder at non-zero temperature) for arbitrary spatial regions. We do it by the resolvent method, i.e., we express the entropies in terms…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-02-24 David Blanco , Tomás Ferreira Chase , Juan Laurnagaray , Guillem Pérez-Nadal

We quantitatively address the following question: for a QFT which is partially compactified, so as to realize an RG flow from a $D$-dimensional CFT in the UV to a $d$-dimensional CFT in the IR, how does the entanglement entropy of a small…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-04-26 Evan Deddo , Leopoldo A. Pando Zayas , Christoph F. Uhlemann

We study a model of two dimensional, topological superconductivity on a square lattice. The model contains hopping, spin orbit coupling and a time reversal symmetry breaking Zeeman term. This term, together with the chemical potential act…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-03-08 Jan Borchmann , T. Pereg-Barnea

We introduce and study generalized R\'enyi entropies defined through the traces of products of ${\rm Tr}_B (|\Psi_i\rangle\langle \Psi_j|)$ where $|\Psi_i\rangle$ are eigenstates of a two-dimensional conformal field theory (CFT). When…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-09-21 Sara Murciano , Pasquale Calabrese , Robert M. Konik