Entanglement entropy of 3-d conformal gauge theories with many flavors

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2012, Issue 5, 2012, Pages

  Klebanov, Igor R ^a   Pufu, Silviu S ^b   Sachdev, Subir ^c   Safdi, Benjamin R ^d  

^a INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

1 N expansion; Chern simons theories; Field theories in lower dimensions; Renormalization group

Indexed keywords

EID: 84861899484     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP05(2012)036     Document Type: Article

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