Abstract
In this paper, we calculate the entanglement Rényi entropy of two coupled gapless systems in general spatial dimension . The gapless systems can be either conformal field theories or Fermi liquids. We assume the two systems are coupled uniformly in an -dimensional submanifold of the space, with . We will focus on the scaling of the Rényi entropy with the size of the system, and its scaling with the intersystem coupling constant . Three approaches will be used for our calculation: (1) exact calculation with ground-state wave functional, (2) perturbative calculation with functional path integral, and (3) scaling argument.
- Received 4 April 2011
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.84.125119
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