Entanglement Entropy in the O(N) model

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2009-04-28

arxiv.org/abs/0904.4477v1

Physical Review B 80, 115122 (2009)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Statistical Mechanics

40 pages, 10 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevB.80.115122

It is generally believed that in spatial dimension d > 1 the leading contribution to the entanglement entropy S = - tr rho_A log rho_A scales as the area of the boundary of subsystem A. The coefficient of this "area law" is non-universal. However, in the neighbourhood of a quantum critical point S is believed to possess subleading universal corrections. In the present work, we study the entanglement entropy in the quantum O(N) model in 1 < d < 3. We use an expansion in epsilon = 3-d to evaluate i) the universal geometric correction to S for an infinite cylinder divided along a circular boundary; ii) the universal correction to S due to a finite correlation length. Both corrections are different at the Wilson-Fisher and Gaussian fixed points, and the epsilon -> 0 limit of the Wilson-Fisher fixed point is distinct from the Gaussian fixed point. In addition, we compute the correlation length correction to the Renyi entropy S_n = (log tr rho^n_A)/(1-n) in epsilon and large-N expansions. For N -> infinity, this correction generally scales as N^2 rather than the naively expected N. Moreover, the Renyi entropy has a phase transition as a function of n for d close to 3.

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