Aspects of Entanglement Entropy in $3d$ $\mathcal{N}=2$ SCFTs

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Main Authors: Marto, Pedro Vicente, Gürsoy, Umut, Planas, Guim Planella
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author Marto, Pedro Vicente
Gürsoy, Umut
Planas, Guim Planella
author_facet Marto, Pedro Vicente
Gürsoy, Umut
Planas, Guim Planella
contents We investigate entanglement entropy in $3d$ $\mathcal{N}=2$ superconformal field theories from two different perspectives. We first confirm that the dependence of supersymmetric entanglement entropy (as defined in arXiv:1306.2958) on the entangling region is purely topological. We then compute entanglement entropy of $3d$ $\mathcal{N}=2$ superconformal gauge theories at arbitrary Yang-Mills coupling using the heat kernel method. This reveals a particular divergence originating in charge fluctuations in the vacuum, hence carrying information about internal symmetries of the theory. This computation leads to universal contributions to entanglement entropy from chiral and vector multiplets for unitary gauge groups of arbitrary rank, and has the advantage that the integral over the gauge moduli is simple to compute.
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spellingShingle Aspects of Entanglement Entropy in $3d$ $\mathcal{N}=2$ SCFTs
Marto, Pedro Vicente
Gürsoy, Umut
Planas, Guim Planella
High Energy Physics - Theory
We investigate entanglement entropy in $3d$ $\mathcal{N}=2$ superconformal field theories from two different perspectives. We first confirm that the dependence of supersymmetric entanglement entropy (as defined in arXiv:1306.2958) on the entangling region is purely topological. We then compute entanglement entropy of $3d$ $\mathcal{N}=2$ superconformal gauge theories at arbitrary Yang-Mills coupling using the heat kernel method. This reveals a particular divergence originating in charge fluctuations in the vacuum, hence carrying information about internal symmetries of the theory. This computation leads to universal contributions to entanglement entropy from chiral and vector multiplets for unitary gauge groups of arbitrary rank, and has the advantage that the integral over the gauge moduli is simple to compute.
title Aspects of Entanglement Entropy in $3d$ $\mathcal{N}=2$ SCFTs
topic High Energy Physics - Theory
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.19044