Entanglement Entropies in One-Dimensional Systems

Abstract

Entanglement entropies have revealed, in the last years, to be a powerful tool to extract information about the physics of condensed-matter systems. In the first part of this thesis, we show how to extract essential details about the quasi-long-range order of a one-dimensional critical systems by means of entanglement entropies. In the second part we show how to derive analytically the scaling of such quantities for critical systems, whose low-energy physics is described by a conformal field theory, in presence of general open boundary conditions that preserve the conformal invariance.

Ph.D. Thesis at Bologna University (2013)