Thermal corrections to Renyi entropies for free fermions

被引:9
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作者
Herzog, Christopher P. [1 ]
Spillane, Michael [1 ]
机构
[1] SUNY Stony Brook, Dept Phys & Astron, CN Yang Inst Theoret Phys, Stony Brook, NY 11794 USA
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基金
美国国家科学基金会;
关键词
Conformal and W Symmetry; Field Theories in Higher Dimensions; Thermal Field Theory;
D O I
10.1007/JHEP04(2016)124
中图分类号
O412 [相对论、场论]; O572.2 [粒子物理学];
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摘要
We calculate thermal corrections to Renyi entropies for free massless fermions on a sphere. More specifically, we take a free fermion on R x Sd-1 and calculate the leading thermal correction to the Renyi entropies for a cap like region with opening angle 2 theta. By expanding the density matrix in a Boltzmann sum, the problem of finding the Renyi entropies can be mapped to the problem of calculating a two point function on an n sheeted cover of the sphere. We follow previous work for conformal field theories to map the problem on the sphere to a conical region in Euclidean space. By using the method of images, we calculate the two point function and recover the Renyi entropies.
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