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Supersymmetric Renyi Entropy

TYPEHigh Energy Physics Seminar
Speaker:Dr. Itamar Yaakov
Affiliation:Princeton University
Organizer:Oren Bergman
Date:02.10.2013
Time:11:30
Location:Lidow Nathan Rosen (300)
Abstract:The Renyi entropy is a generalization of entanglement entropy which can be used to further characterize the ground state of a quantum field theory. I'll present an observable, analogous to the Renyi entropy, which is defined for a 3d gauge theory preserving four supercharges, and which preserves a subset of the supersymmetry. Using localization techniques, this supersymmetric Renyi entropy can be calculated exactly for a variety of strongly coupled 3d gauge theories.