26 July 2026 to 1 August 2026
University of Maryland, College Park
US/Eastern timezone

Flux Tube Entanglement Entropy across Temperature, Geometry, and Gauge Group

29 Jul 2026, 11:50
20m
Thurgood Marshall (Adele H. Stamp Student Union)

Thurgood Marshall

Adele H. Stamp Student Union

3972 Campus Dr, College Park, MD 20742
Contributed talk Vacuum structure and confinement Vacuum structure and confinement

Speaker

Rocco Amorosso

Description

We study the vacuum-subtracted entanglement entropy of the color flux tube between a static quark-antiquark pair in SU(2) through SU(5) (2+1)-D pure gauge theory. Using the replica trick, we examine the dependence of entanglement on temperature as well as the size and topology of the entangling region. Through analyzing these factors, we present quantitative conclusions about the nature of non-abelian flux in both confining and deconfining regimes, finding signatures of the intrinsic width as well as a new scale, the entanglement radius, that characterizes a "thickness" of the flux tube distinct from the intrinsic width.

Authors

Raju Venugopalan (Brookhaven National Laboratory) Rocco Amorosso Prof. Sergey Syritsyn (Stony Brook University)

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