Two-cylinder entanglement entropy under a twist

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DOI10.1088/1742-5468/AA668AzbMATH Open1456.81365arXiv1611.01847OpenAlexW2553072806MaRDI QIDQ3303003FDOQ3303003

Xiao Chen, William Witczak-Krempa, Thomas Faulkner, Eduardo Fradkin

Publication date: 11 August 2020

Published in: Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We study the von Neumann and R'enyi entanglement entropy (EE) of scale-invariant theories defined on tori in 2+1 and 3+1 spacetime dimensions. We focus on spatial bi-partitions of the torus into two cylinders, and allow for twisted boundary conditions along the non-contractible cycles. Various analytical and numerical results are obtained for the universal EE of the relativistic boson and Dirac fermion conformal field theories (CFTs), and for the fermionic quadratic band touching and the boson with z=2 Lifshitz scaling. The shape dependence of the EE clearly distinguishes these theories, although intriguing similarities are found in certain limits. We also study the evolution of the EE when a mass is introduced to detune the system from its scale-invariant point, by employing a renormalized EE that goes beyond a naive subtraction of the area law. In certain cases we find non-monotonic behavior of the torus EE under RG flow, which distinguishes it from the EE of a disk.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1611.01847





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