Entanglement entropy of two disjoint intervals in conformal field theory

Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment

Volumn 2009, Issue 11, 2009, Pages

  Calabrese, Pasquale ^a   Cardy, John ^b,c   Tonni, Erik ^a  

^a INFN SEZIONE DI PISA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c ALL SOULS COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Conformal field theory (theory); Entanglement in extended quantum systems (theory); Luttinger liquids (theory)

Indexed keywords

EID: 70450285534     PISSN: 17425468     EISSN: 17425468     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1742-5468/2009/11/P11001     Document Type: Article

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