18–22 Aug 2014
Reykjavík, Askja, room N-132
Europe/Stockholm timezone

Erik Tonni: Entanglement negativity in conformal field theory

19 Aug 2014, 09:45
45m
Reykjavík, Askja, room N-132

Reykjavík, Askja, room N-132

Erik Tonni: Entanglement negativity in conformal field theory

Description

Entanglement of quantum states and its measures play an important role in many areas of theoretical physics. While the entanglement entropy is a good measure for pure states, the negativity allows to measure entanglement for mixed states. A method to compute negativity in QFT through the replica trick will be described, focussing on 2D CFTs. Analytic results and their numerical checks will be presented for the compactified boson and the Ising model. Also the time evolution of the negativity after a global quantum quench will be discussed.

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