Physics – Condensed Matter – Statistical Mechanics
Scientific paper
2010-07-21
Physics
Condensed Matter
Statistical Mechanics
24 pages, 5 figures
Scientific paper
I discuss the von Neumann entanglement entropy in two-dimensional quantum Lifshitz criical point, namely in Rokhsar-Kivelson type critical wavefunctions. I follow the approach proposed by B. Hsu et al. [Phys. Rev. B 79, 115421 (2009)], but point out a subtle problem concerning compactification of replica boson fields: although one can define a set of new boson fields by linear combinations of the original fields, the new fields are not compactified independently. In order to systematically study boundary conformal field theory of multicomponent free bosons, I employ a geometric formulation based on compactification lattices. The result from the boundary conformal field theory agrees exactly with alternative calculations by J.-M. Stephan et al. [Phys. Rev. B 80, 184421 (2009)], confirming its universality as argued originally by B. Hsu et al.
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