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JOURNAL OF PHYSICS A-MATHEMATICAL AND THEORETICAL
Volume 42, Issue 30, Pages -Publisher
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/1751-8113/42/30/304005
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- RFBR [06-02-04010-NNIO-a, 08-02-00661-a]
- DFG-RFBR [436 RUS]
- Federal Program of the Russian Ministry of Industry, Science and Technology [40.052.1.1.1112]
- Russian Federal Agency for Nuclear Power
- [NSh-679.2008.2]
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We report on the recent progress in theoretical and numerical studies of entanglement entropy in lattice gauge theories. It is shown that the concept of quantum entanglement between gauge fields in two complementary regions of space can only be introduced if the Hilbert space of physical states is extended in a certain way. In the extended Hilbert space, the entanglement entropy can be partially interpreted as the classical Shannon entropy of the flux of the gauge fields through the boundary between the two regions. Such an extension leads to a reduction procedure which can easily be implemented in lattice simulations by constructing lattices with special topology. This enables us to measure the entanglement entropy in lattice Monte-Carlo simulations. On the simplest example of Z(2) lattice gauge theory in (2 + 1) dimensions we demonstrate the relation between the entanglement entropy and the classical entropy of the field flux. For SU(2) lattice gauge theory in four dimensions, we find a signature of non-analytic dependence of the entanglement entropy on the size of the region. We also comment on the holographic interpretation of the entanglement entropy.
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