Abstract
The entanglement entropy in Kondo impurity systems is studied analytically using conformal field theory. From the impurity contribution to the scaling corrections of the entanglement entropy we extract information about the screening cloud profile for general non-Fermi-liquid fixed points. By also considering the finite-temperature corrections to scaling of the von Neumann entropy we point out a direct connection between the long-distance screening cloud profile and thermodynamic observables such as the specific heat.
- Received 29 June 2011
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.84.041107
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