NewEvery arXiv paper, its researchers & institutions — mapped.
paper

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.

17 figures!