Entanglement entropy of fermions in any dimension and the Widom conjecture

DOI10.1103/PHYSREVLETT.96.100503MaRDI QIDQ6501928arXivWikidataFDO

Authors Dimitri Gioev, Israel Klich

Abstract: We show that entanglement entropy of free fermions scales faster then area law, as opposed to the scaling $L^{d-1}$ for the harmonic lattice, for example. We also suggest and provide evidence in support of an explicit formula for the entanglement entropy of free fermions in any dimension $d$, $Ssimc(partialGamma,partialOmega)cdot{L}^{d-1}logL$ as the size of a subsystem $Loinfty$, where $partialGamma$ is the Fermi surface and $partialOmega$ is the boundary of the region in real space. The expression for the constant $c(partialGamma,partialOmega)$ is based on a conjecture due to H. Widom. We prove that a similar expression holds for the particle number fluctuations and use it to prove a two sided estimates on the entropy $S$.

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