Entanglement Entropy and Quantum Phase Transition in the O(N) σ-model
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Chen, Jiunn-Wei
Dai, Shou-Huang
Pang, Jin-Yi
Date Issued
July 26, 2021
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Springer Berlin Heidelberg
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Journal of High Energy Physics. 2021 Jul 26;2021(7):201
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We investigate how entanglement entropy behaves in a non-conformal scalar field system with a quantum phase transition, by the replica method. We study the σ-model in 3+1 dimensions which is O(N) symmetric as the mass squared parameter μ2 is positive, and undergoes spontaneous symmetry breaking while μ2 becomes negative. The area law leading divergence of the entanglement entropy is preserved in both of the symmetric and the broken phases. The spontaneous symmetry breaking changes the subleading divergence from log to log squared, due to the cubic interaction on the cone. At the leading order of the coupling constant expansion, the entanglement entropy reaches a cusped maximum at the quantum phase transition point μ2 = 0, and decreases while μ2 is tuned away from 0 into either phase.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Center for Theoretical Physics
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https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP07(2021)201
