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The boundary entropy function for interface conformal field theories

High Energy Physics - Theory 2025-04-02 v4 Strongly Correlated Electrons

Abstract

{In 1+1 dimensional conformal field theory with a boundary the boundary contribution to the entanglement entropy is determined by a single number gg effectively counting the boundary degrees of freedom. In contrast, in 1+1 dimensional interface CFTs the corresponding quantity is a non-trivial {\it function} depending on the position of the interval relative to the interface, giving access to much more detailed information about the defect. In this work we determined this gg-function in several examples using holography and derive some of its basic properties from holography and strong subadditivity.

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@article{arxiv.2412.05381,
  title  = {The boundary entropy function for interface conformal field theories},
  author = {Evangelos Afxonidis and Andreas Karch and Chitraang Murdia},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2412.05381},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

24 pages, 7 figures, refined definition of geff, updated proof of geff-theorem, author added

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