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1. Physics and Astronomy › Quantum many-body systems

   Topological Entanglement Entropy

   Kitaev and Preskill · Physical Review Letters · 2006

   The paper characterises ground-state entanglement in a gapped, topologically ordered 2D medium, showing the entropy of a disk contains a universal constant, and derives a formula for it using topological quantum field theory.

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   1. UncheckedIn a gapped topologically ordered 2D system, the entanglement entropy of a disk has a non-universal boundary term and a universal constant offset, -γ.“The coefficient α, arising from short wavelength modes localized near the boundary, is nonuniversal and ultraviolet divergent, but -γis a universal additive constant characterizing a global feature of the entanglement in the ground state.”