Exact results for corner contributions to the entanglement entropy and Rényi entropies of free bosons and fermions in 3d

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSLETB.2015.08.017zbMATH Open1364.81039arXiv1506.06729OpenAlexW1557924695WikidataQ58025400 ScholiaQ58025400MaRDI QIDQ2396548FDOQ2396548

Henriette Elvang, Marios Hadjiantonis

Publication date: 8 June 2017

Published in: Physics Letters B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: 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 where the corner becomes smooth, the corner function vanishes quadratically with coefficient $sigma$ for the EE and $sigm{a}_n$ for the Renyi entropies. For a free real scalar and a free Dirac fermion, we evaluate analytically the integral expressions of Casini, Huerta, and Leitao to derive exact results for $sigma$ and $sigm{a}_n$ for all $n=2,3,dots$. The results for $sigma$ agree with a recent universality conjecture of Bueno, Myers, and Witczak-Krempa that $sigma/C_T=p{i}^2/24$ in all 3d CFTs, where $C_T$ is the central charge. For the Renyi entropies, the ratios $sigm{a}_n/C_T$ do not indicate similar universality. However, in the limit $noinfty$, the asymptotic values satisfy a simple relationship and equal $1/(4p{i}^2)$ times the asymptotic values of the free energy of free scalars/fermions on the $n$-covered 3-sphere.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1506.06729

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zbMATH Keywords

entanglement entropyRenyi entropy3-dimensional field theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Measures of information, entropy (94A17) Quantum coherence, entanglement, quantum correlations (81P40)

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