Universal behavior of entanglement in 2D quantum critical dimer models

Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment

Volumn 2010, Issue 9, 2010, Pages

  Hsu, Benjamin ^a   Fradkin, Eduardo ^a  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

Author keywords

Conformal field theory; Conformal field theory (theory); Dimers (theory); Entanglement in extended quantum systems (theory)

Indexed keywords

EID: 77957564537     PISSN: 17425468     EISSN: 17425468     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1742-5468/2010/09/P09004     Document Type: Article

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