Aspects of entanglement entropy for gauge theories

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DOI10.1007/JHEP01(2016)136zbMATH Open1388.81088arXiv1510.07455MaRDI QIDQ1638166FDOQ1638166

Ronak M. Soni, Sandip P. Trivedi

Publication date: 12 June 2018

Published in: Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: A definition for the entanglement entropy in a gauge theory was given recently in arXiv:1501.02593. Working on a spatial lattice, it involves embedding the physical state in an extended Hilbert space obtained by taking the tensor product of the Hilbert space of states on each link of the lattice. This extended Hilbert space admits a tensor product decomposition by definition and allows a density matrix and entanglement entropy for the set of links of interest to be defined. Here, we continue the study of this extended Hilbert space definition with particular emphasis on the case of Non-Abelian gauge theories. We extend the electric centre definition of Casini, Huerta and Rosabal to the Non-Abelian case and find that it differs in an important term. We also find that the entanglement entropy does not agree with the maximum number of Bell pairs that can be extracted by the processes of entanglement distillation or dilution, and give protocols which achieve the maximum bound. Finally, we compute the topological entanglement entropy which follows from the extended Hilbert space definition and show that it correctly reproduces the total quantum dimension in a class of Toric code models based on Non-Abelian discrete groups.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1510.07455




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