Observations on entanglement entropy in massive QFT's

Aitor Lewkowycz, Robert C. Myers, Michael Smolkin*

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Abstract

We identify various universal contributions to the entanglement entropy for massive free fields. As well as the 'area' terms found in [1], we find other geometric contributions of the form discussed in [2]. We also compute analogous contributions for a strongly coupled field theory using the AdS/CFT correspondence. In this case, we find the results for strong and weak coupling do not agree.

Original languageEnglish
Article number17
JournalJournal of High Energy Physics
Volume2013
Issue number4
DOIs
StatePublished - 2013
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • AdS-CFT Correspondence
  • Field Theories in Higher Dimensions
  • Holography and condensed matter physics (AdS/CMT)

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