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 ) 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 . 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