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arXiv:1210.6858 · Journal of High Energy Physics

Observations on entanglement entropy in massive QFT’s

Aitor Lewkowycz, Robert Cobb Myers, Michael Smolkin

Published Apr 1, 2013• 64 citations
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10.1007/jhep04(2013)017

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