Entanglement entropy and quantum field theory: A non-technical introduction

International Journal of Quantum Information

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 429-438

  Calabrese, Pasquale ^a   Cardy, John ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b ALL SOULS COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Conformal field theory; Entanglement entropy; Quantum phase transition

Indexed keywords

ENTROPY; PHASE TRANSITIONS;

CONFORMAL FIELD THEORIES; ENTANGLEMENT ENTROPY; LINEAR DISPERSION RELATIONS; QUANTUM CRITICAL POINTS; QUANTUM FIELD THEORY; QUANTUM PHASE TRANSITIONS;

QUANTUM ENTANGLEMENT;

EID: 33746345589     PISSN: 02197499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S021974990600192X     Document Type: Article

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