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Entanglement and Interface Conditions on Fields

High Energy Physics - Theory 2024-12-13 v1

Abstract

We consider the vacuum wave function of a free scalar field theory in space partitioned into two regions, with the field obeying Robin conditions (of parameter κ\kappa) on the interface. A direct integration over fields in a subregion is carried out to obtain the reduced density matrix. This leads to a constructive proof of the Reeh-Schlieder theorem. We analyze the entanglement entropy as a function of the Robin parameter κ\kappa. We also consider a specific conditional probability as another measure of entanglement which is more amenable to analysis of the dependence on interface conditions. Finally, we discuss a direct calculation of correlation functions and how it gives an alternate route to the reduced density matrix.

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@article{arxiv.2412.09491,
  title  = {Entanglement and Interface Conditions on Fields},
  author = {Antonina Maj and V. P. Nair},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2412.09491},
  year   = {2024}
}

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28 pages, 2 figures

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