SCGP Weekly Talk: John Cardy, Oxford University

John Cardy, Oxford University

Title: Entanglement in Quantum Many-Body Systems
Speaker: John Cardy, Oxford University
Date: Tuesday, March 19, 2013
Time: 1:30pm – 2:30pm
Place: Lecture Hall 102, Simons Center

 

 

 

Per speakers request, this talk was not recorded.

 

Abstract: In this talk I’ll review some of the progress of the last few years in quantifying the degree of quantum entanglement in the ground states of many-body systems. I’ll show how this can be computed in terms of path integrals in multiply-connected domains, and how in 1+1 dimensions these are related to universal quantities like the central charge.

Then I’ll discuss some more recent results, on entanglement negativity for mixed states, and corrections to the area law in higher dimensions.