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arxiv: 1506.06757 · v1 · pith:YVPFP3LTnew · submitted 2015-06-22 · ✦ hep-th · cond-mat.stat-mech· quant-ph

Thermal Corrections to R\'enyi entropies for Free Fermions

classification ✦ hep-th cond-mat.stat-mechquant-ph
keywords entropiescalculatefreeproblemspherethermalcorrectionsfermions
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We calculate thermal corrections to R\'{e}nyi entropies for free massless fermions on a sphere. More specifically, we take a free fermion on $\mathbb{R}\times\mathbb{S}^{d-1}$ and calculate the leading thermal correction to the R\'{e}nyi entropies for a cap like region with opening angle $2\theta$. By expanding the density matrix in a Boltzmann sum, the problem of finding the R\'{e}nyi entropies can be mapped to the problem of calculating a two point function on an $n$ sheeted cover of the sphere. We follow previous work for conformal field theories to map the problem on the sphere to a conical region in Euclidean space. By using the method of images, we calculate the two point function and recover the R\'{e}nyi entropies.

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