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We study half-BPS line defects in $\mathcal{N}=2$ superconformal theories using the bootstrap approach. We concentrate on local excitations constrained to the defect, which means the system is a $1d$ defect CFT with $\mathfrak{osp}(4^*|2)$…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-04-22 Aleix Gimenez-Grau , Pedro Liendo

We study the evolution of symmetry-resolved entanglement entropy in bulk-driven Floquet conformal field theories (CFTs). Focusing on the two-dimensional free compact boson CFT, we analyze how symmetry-resolved R\'enyi entropies approach or…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-03-31 Filiberto Ares , Jayashish Das , Arnab Kundu

We construct an effective field theory for fusion of conformal defects of any codimension in $d\geq 3$ conformal field theories. We fully solve the constraints of Weyl invariance for defects of arbitrary shape on general curved bulk…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-05-28 Petr Kravchuk , Alex Radcliffe , Ritam Sinha

We use the holographic proposal for calculating entanglement entropies to determine the boundary entropy of defects in strongly coupled two-dimensional conformal field theories. We study several examples including the Janus solution and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-12-15 Tatsuo Azeyanagi , Andreas Karch , Tadashi Takayanagi , Ethan G. Thompson

In this paper, we study the entanglement entropy of a single interval on a cylinder in two-dimensional $T\overline{T}$-deformed conformal field theory. For such case, the (R\'enyi) entanglement entropy takes a universal form in a CFT. We…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-11-07 Bin Chen , Lin Chen , Peng-xiang Hao

In this thesis, we focus on higher-curvature extensions of Einstein gravity as toy models to probe universal properties of conformal field theory (CFT) using the gauge/gravity duality. In this context, we are particularly interested in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-07-27 Javier Moreno

We study the symmetry resolution of the entanglement entropy of an interval in two-dimensional conformal field theories (CFTs), by relating the bipartition to the geometry of an annulus with conformal boundary conditions. In the presence of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-10-21 Giuseppe Di Giulio , René Meyer , Christian Northe , Henri Scheppach , Suting Zhao

We consider defect operators in scalar field theories in dimensions $d=4-\epsilon $ and $d=6-\epsilon$ with self-interactions given by a general marginal potential. In a double scaling limit, where the bulk couplings go to zero and the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-12-21 D. Rodriguez-Gomez , J. G. Russo

Boundary conformal field theory (BCFT) and interface conformal field theory (ICFT) attract attention in the context of the information paradox problem. On this background, we develop the idea of the reflected entropy in BCFT/ICFT. We first…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-11-16 Yuya Kusuki

For a conformal field theory (CFT) deformed by a relevant operator, the entanglement entropy of a ball-shaped region may be computed as a perturbative expansion in the coupling. A similar perturbative expansion exists for excited states…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-05-04 Antony J. Speranza

In this paper and a companion one, we study the effect of integrable line defects on entanglement entropy in massive integrable field theories in 1+1 dimensions. The current paper focuses on topological defects that are purely transmissive.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-09-13 Yunfeng Jiang

Quantum impurities give rise to rich physical phenomena, with some exhibiting critical behavior described by conformal field theories (CFTs) in the low-energy limit. In parallel, party-time ($\mathcal{PT}$) symmetric non-Hermitian systems…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-19 Heng-Hsi Li , Kuang-Hung Chou , Xueda Wen , Po-Yao Chang

Conformal Field Theories (CFTs) have rich dynamics in heavy states. We describe the constraints due to spontaneously broken boost and dilatation symmetries in such states. The spontaneously broken boost symmetries require the existence of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-09-29 Zohar Komargodski , Márk Mezei , Sridip Pal , Avia Raviv-Moshe

A good understanding of conformal field theory (CFT) at c=0 is vital to the physics of disordered systems, as well as geometrical problems such as polymers and percolation. Steady progress has shown that these CFTs should be logarithmic,…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-11-20 Jerome Dubail , Jesper Lykke Jacobsen , Hubert Saleur

We explore the idea that large $N$, non-supersymmetric conformal field theories with a parametrically large gap to higher spin single-trace operators may be obtained as infrared fixed points of relevant double-trace deformations of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-04-04 Simone Giombi , Eric Perlmutter

The classical Density Functional Theory (DFT) is introduced as an application of entropic inference for inhomogeneous fluids at thermal equilibrium. It is shown that entropic inference reproduces the variational principle of DFT when…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-09-14 Ahmad Yousefi , Ariel Caticha

The concept of distinguishability lies at the heart of quantum information theory. We introduce \textit{left-right relative entropy} as a quantitative measure of distinguishability within the space of boundary states in two-dimensional…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-26 Mostafa Ghasemi

Relative entropy is a non-negative quantity and offers a powerful means of achieving a unified understanding of fundamental properties in physics, including the second law of thermodynamics and positivity bounds on effective field theories…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-04-29 Daiki Ueda , Kazuhiro Tatsumi

We investigate the symmetry constraints on the bispectrum, i.e. the three-point correlation function of primordial density fluctuations, in slow-roll inflation. It follows from the defining property of slow-roll inflation that primordial…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-03-29 Koenraad Schalm , Gary Shiu , Ted van der Aalst

We review the conformal field theory approach to entanglement entropy. We show how to apply these methods to the calculation of the entanglement entropy of a single interval, and the generalization to different situations such as finite…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-12-08 Pasquale Calabrese , John Cardy