Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Theory
Scientific paper
2008-08-29
JHEP0811:076,2008
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Theory
25 pages, 10 figures v2: section 2.1 improved; matches published version
Scientific paper
10.1088/1126-6708/2008/11/076
The entanglement entropy of a subsystem of a quantum system is expressed, in the replica approach, through analytic continuation with respect to n of the trace of the n-th power of the reduced density matrix. This trace can be thought of as the vacuum expectation value of a suitable observable in a system made with n independent copies of the original system. We use this property to numerically evaluate it in some two-dimensional critical systems, where it can be compared with the results of Calabrese and Cardy, who wrote the same quantity in terms of correlation functions of twist fields of a conformal field theory. Although the two calculations match perfectly even in finite systems when the analyzed subsystem consists of a single interval, they disagree whenever the subsystem is composed of more than one connected part. The reasons of this disagreement are explained.
Caraglio Michele
Gliozzi Ferdinando
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