Entanglement entropy as a witness of the Aharonov-Bohm effect in QFT

DOI10.1088/1751-8113/48/14/145401MaRDI QIDQ5247151zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Raúl E. Arias, David D. Blanco, Horacio Casini

Publication date 23 April 2015

Published in Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1409.3269

zbMATH Keywords

entanglement entropyquantum field theoryAharonov-Bohm effect

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Measures of information, entropy (94A17) Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in mechanics of particles and systems (70S15) Quantum coherence, entanglement, quantum correlations (81P40) Closed and approximate solutions to the Schrödinger, Dirac, Klein-Gordon and other equations of quantum mechanics (81Q05)

Abstract: We study the dependence of the entanglement entropy with a magnetic flux, and show that the former quantity witnesses an Aharonov Bohm-like effect. In particular, we consider free charged scalar and Dirac fields living on a two dimensional cylinder and study how the entanglement entropy for a strip-like region on the surface of the cylinder is affected by a magnetic field enclosed by it.

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