Numerical determination of the entanglement entropy for free fields in the cylinder

Details Numerical determination of the entanglement entropy for free fields in the cylinder Numerical determination of the entanglement entropy for free fields in the cylinder

2011-12-06

arxiv.org/abs/1112.1277v1

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Theory

10 pages, 4 figures

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We calculate numerically the logarithmic contribution to the entanglement entropy of a cylindrical region in three spatial dimensions for both, free scalar and Dirac fields. The coefficient is universal and proportional to the type $c$ conformal anomaly in agreement with recent analytical predictions. We also calculate the mass corrections to the entanglement entropy for scalar and Dirac fields in a disk. These apparently unrelated problems make contact through the dimensional reduction procedure valid for free fields whereby the entanglement entropy for the cylinder can be calculated as an integral over masses of the disk entanglement entropies. Coming from the same numerical evaluation in the lattice, each coefficient is cross checked by the other, testing in this way the two results simultaneously.

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