Entanglement entropies in free-fermion gases for arbitrary dimension

We study the entanglement entropy of connected bipartitions in free-fermion gases of N particles in arbitrary dimension d. We show that the von Neumann and Renyi entanglement entropies grow asymptotically as N(d-1)/d ln N, with a prefactor that is analytically computed using the Widom conjecture both for periodic and open boundary conditions. The logarithmic correction to the power-law behavior is related to the area-law violation in lattice free fermions. These asymptotic large-N behaviors are checked against exact numerical calculations for N-particle systems. Copyright (C) EPLA, 2012