Entanglement entropy of fermions in any dimension and the Widom conjecture

dc.creatorGioev, Dimitri
dc.creatorKlich, Israel
dc.date2005-04-20
dc.date2006-03-15
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dc.descriptionWe show that entanglement entropy of free fermions scales faster then area law, as opposed to the scaling $L^{d-1}$ for the harmonic lattice, for example. We also suggest and provide evidence in support of an explicit formula for the entanglement entropy of free fermions in any dimension $d$, $S\sim c(\partialΓ,\partialΩ)\cdot L^{d-1}\log L$ as the size of a subsystem $L\to\infty$, where $\partialΓ$ is the Fermi surface and $\partialΩ$ is the boundary of the region in real space. The expression for the constant $c(\partialΓ,\partialΩ)$ is based on a conjecture due to H. Widom. We prove that a similar expression holds for the particle number fluctuations and use it to prove a two sided estimates on the entropy $S$.
dc.descriptionFinal version
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0504151
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0504151
dc.identifierPhys. Rev. Lett. 96, 100503 (2006)
dc.identifierdoi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.96.100503
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/101536
dc.subjectQuantum Physics
dc.subjectStatistical Mechanics
dc.subjectFunctional Analysis
dc.titleEntanglement entropy of fermions in any dimension and the Widom conjecture
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