by P. Calabrese (5 credits, type A)
Main topics
- Entanglement entropy in many-body quantum systems
- Path integral formulation of entanglement entropy: replicas, Riemann surfaces, twist fields
- Entanglement entropy in conformal field theory
- Entanglement entropy in non-critical 1+1-dimensional models
- Entanglement entropy of free fermionic models
- Non equilibrium dynamics of isolated quantum systems
- Entanglement entropy after a quantum quench in a CFT
- Entanglement evolution in integrable models
- Other entanglement measures: entanglement spectrum and negativity
- Path integral formulation of entanglement negativity
Main Reference: the review http://arxiv.org/pdf/0905.4013.pdf
Other secondary references will be given during the course
Prerequisites: Basic knowledge of CFT and QFT