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High Energy Physics - Theory

Title: QFT Entanglement Entropy, 2D Fermion and Gauge Fields

Authors: Bom Soo Kim
Abstract: Entanglement and the R\'enyi entropies for Dirac fermions on 2 dimensional torus in the presence of chemical potential, current source, and topological Wilson loop are unified in a single framework by exhausting all the ingredients of the electromagnetic vertex operators of $\mathbb{Z}_n$ orbifold conformal field theory. We employ different normalizations for different topological sectors to organize various topological phase transitions in the context of entanglement entropy. Pictorial representations for the topological transitions are given for the $n=2$ R\'enyi entropy.
Our analytic computations reveal numerous novelties and provide resolutions for existing issues. We have settled to provide non-singular entanglement entropies that are also continuous across the topological sectors. Surprisingly, in infinite space, these entropies become exact and depend only on the Wilson loop. On a circle, we resolve to find the entropies subtly depend on the chemical potential at zero temperature, which is useful for probing the ground state energy levels of quantum systems.
Comments: 7+3 pages, 7 figures. Here entanglement entropy is continuous across the Wilson loop topological transitions, while arXiv:1705.01859 realizes its discontinuous version
Subjects: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th); Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
Journal reference: Phys. Lett. B 825 (2022) 136876
DOI: 10.1016/j.physletb.2022.136876
Cite as: arXiv:2201.02722 [hep-th]
  (or arXiv:2201.02722v1 [hep-th] for this version)

Submission history

From: Bom Soo Kim [view email]
[v1] Sat, 8 Jan 2022 01:24:59 GMT (1552kb,D)

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