Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Theory
Scientific paper
2009-06-16
J.Phys.A42:504006,2009
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Theory
51 pages, 9 figures. Review article to appear in the special issue "Entanglement entropy in extended quantum systems" of J. Ph
Scientific paper
10.1088/1751-8113/42/50/504006
This manuscript is a review of the main results obtained in a series of papers involving the present authors and their collaborator J.L. Cardy over the last two years. In our work we have developed and applied a new approach for the computation of the bi-partite entanglement entropy in massive 1+1-dimensional quantum field theories. In most of our work we have considered these theories to be also integrable. Our approach combines two main ingredients: the "replica trick" and form factors for integrable models and more generally for massive quantum field theory. Our basic idea for combining fruitfully these two ingredients is that of the branch-point twist field. By the replica trick we obtained an alternative way of expressing the entanglement entropy as a function of the correlation functions of branch-point twist fields. On the other hand, a generalisation of the form factor program has allowed us to study, and in integrable cases to obtain exact expressions for, form factors of such twist fields. By the usual decomposition of correlation functions in an infinite series involving form factors, we obtained exact results for the infrared behaviours of the bi-partite entanglement entropy, and studied both its infrared and ultraviolet behaviours for different kinds of models: with and without boundaries and backscattering, at and out of integrability.
Castro-Alvaredo Olalla A.
Doyon Benjamin
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