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Multientropy and the dihedral measures at quantum critical points

Jonathan Harper1, Ali Mollabashi2, Tadashi Takayanagi1,3, and Kenya Tasuki1,*

  • *Contact author: kenya.tasuki@yukawa.kyoto-u.ac.jp
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Phys. Rev. Research 7, 043194 – Published 20 November, 2025

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/67k4-vc74

Abstract

The multientropy and dihedral measures are a class of tractable measures for multipartite entanglement, which are labeled by the Rényi index (or replica number) n as in the Rényi entanglement entropy. The purpose of this article is to demonstrate that these quantities are useful probes of quantum critical points by examining concrete examples. In particular, we compute the multientropy and dihedral measures in the (1+1)-dimensional massless free scalar field theory on a lattice and in the transverse-field Ising model. For n=2, we find that the numerical results in both lattice theories quantitatively agree with those from conformal field theoretic calculations. For n=3 and n=4, we provide predictions of these measures for the massless scalar field theory.

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Phys. Rev. Research 7, 043194– Published 20 November, 2025
  • Received 6 July 2025
  • Accepted 22 October 2025
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