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Impurity entanglement entropy in Kondo systems from conformal field theory

Erik Eriksson and Henrik Johannesson
Phys. Rev. B 84, 041107(R) – Published 28 July 2011

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

©2011 American Physical Society

Authors & Affiliations

Erik Eriksson and Henrik Johannesson

  • Department of Physics, University of Gothenburg, SE 412 96 Gothenburg, Sweden

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Vol. 84, Iss. 4 — 15 July 2011

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