Topological Entanglement Entropy in Chern-Simons Theories and Quantum Hall Fluids
arXiv:0802.3231 · doi:10.1088/1126-6708/2008/05/016
Abstract
We compute directly the entanglement entropy of spatial regions in Chern-Simons gauge theories in 2+1 dimensions using surgery. We use these results to determine the universal topological piece of the entanglement entropy for Abelian and non-Abelian quantum Hall fluids.
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