Apr 13 – 17, 2015
The Galileo Galilei Institute for Theoretical Physics (GGI)
Europe/Rome timezone

Entanglement Entropy and Boundary Terms: Two Short Stories

Apr 14, 2015, 9:40 AM
40m
The Galileo Galilei Institute for Theoretical Physics (GGI)

The Galileo Galilei Institute for Theoretical Physics (GGI)

Arcetri, Florence

Speaker

Christopher Herzog

Description

Conformal transformations to hyperbolic space are a useful tool for calculating entanglement entropies in conformal field theories. I will use this tool to calculate thermal corrections to entanglement entropy for conformal field theories on spheres. I will also consider the universal log contribution to the entanglement entropy for CFTs in even dimensional flat space. In both cases, we will see the crucial role played by boundary terms.

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