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

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSLETB.2015.08.017MaRDI QIDQ2396548zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Henriette Elvang, Marios Hadjiantonis

Publication date 8 June 2017

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

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

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

zbMATH Keywords

3-dimensional field theoryentanglement entropyRenyi entropy

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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.

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