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Conformal interfaces gluing a pair of two-dimensional conformal field theories enjoy a large degree of universality in terms of the coefficients of reflection and transmission of energy, that describe the scattering of conformal matter at…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-01-13 Avik Banerjee , Giuseppe Policastro

We derive dynamics of the entanglement wedge cross section directly from the two-dimensional holographic CFTs with a local operator quench. This derivation is based on the reflected entropy, a correlation measure for mixed states. We…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-03-17 Yuya Kusuki , Kotaro Tamaoka

We investigate the mixed state entanglement structure through the reflected entropy for disjoint radiation subsystems coupled to a 2d eternal brane world black hole in a time dependent defect AdS$_3$/BCFT$_2$ scenario. Utilizing the island…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-12-19 Ankur Dey , Gautam Sengupta

Boundary conformal field theory (BCFT) is the study of conformal field theory (CFT) on manifolds with a boundary. We can use conformal symmetry to constrain correlation functions of conformal invariant fields. We compute two-point and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-09-11 M. R. Setare , V. Kamali

In this note, we consider entanglement and Renyi entropies for spatial subsystems of a boundary conformal field theory (BCFT) or of a CFT in a state constructed using a Euclidean BCFT path integral. Holographic calculations suggest that…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-03-31 James Sully , Mark Van Raamsdonk , David Wakeham

We use the framework of $\textit{fixed-point BCFT tensor networks}$ to present a microscopic CFT derivation of the correspondence between reflected entropy (RE) and entanglement wedge cross section (EW) in AdS$_3$/CFT$_2$, for both…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-02-17 Ning Bao , Jinwei Chu , Yikun Jiang , Jacob March

We study bulk locality in a scalar effective field theory (EFT) in AdS background in presence of an end-of-the-world (EOW) brane. The holographic dual description is given in terms of a boundary conformal field theory (BCFT). We compute the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-19 Pinaki Banerjee , Parijat Dey , Dipyendu Dhar

We study the entanglement phase structure of a holographic boundary conformal field theory (BCFT) in a two-dimensional black hole background. The bulk dual is the AdS$_3$ black string geometry with a Karch-Randall brane. We compute the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-12-28 Hao Geng , Lisa Randall , Erik Swanson

Entanglement entropy~(EE) contains signatures of many universal properties of conformal field theories~(CFTs), especially in the presence of boundaries or defects. In particular, {\it topological} defects are interesting since they reflect…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-06-06 Ananda Roy , Hubert Saleur

We study the entanglement entropy for time-like subsystem in two-dimensional boundary conformal field theory (BCFT) both from the field theory and holographic point of view. In field theory, we compute the time-like entanglement entropy of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-03-12 Chong-Sun Chu , Himanshu Parihar

Using the subtraction approach, we give the bipartite mixed state entanglement entropy in thermal $\text{CFT}_2$. With these entanglement entropies, we examine in detail the holographic duals of different entangling configurations…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-09-01 Xin Jiang , Haitang Yang , Zilin Zhao

We study the relative R\'enyi entropy (RRE) under local quenches in two-dimensional conformal field theories (CFTs), focusing on rational CFTs (RCFTs) and holographic CFTs. In RCFTs, the RRE evolves as a monotonic function over time,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-12-22 Zi-Xuan Zhao , Song He , Hao Ouyang , Hong-an Zeng , Yu-Xuan Zhang

In this note, we use entanglement entropy as a tool to explore the universal properties of CFTs dual to extremal BTZ black holes. We demonstrate that the entanglement entropies computed in the CFTs at the boundary of the extremal BTZ and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-02-26 Pawel Caputa , Vishnu Jejjala , Hesam Soltanpanahi

We study the AdS/BCFT duality between two-dimensional conformal field theories with two boundaries and three-dimensional anti-de Sitter space with two Karch-Randall branes. We compute the entanglement entropy of a bipartition of the BCFT,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-08-11 Hao Geng , Severin Lüst , Rashmish K. Mishra , David Wakeham

{In 1+1 dimensional conformal field theory with a boundary the boundary contribution to the entanglement entropy is determined by a single number $g$ effectively counting the boundary degrees of freedom. In contrast, in 1+1 dimensional…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-04-02 Evangelos Afxonidis , Andreas Karch , Chitraang Murdia

The entanglement wedge cross section in holographic picture provides a geometrical description of the entanglement for mixed states. In this paper we study the inequalities for the entanglement wedge cross section in AdS/BCFT duality. In…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-11-03 Pan Li , Yi Ling

In this paper we discuss behaviors of entanglement entropy between two interacting CFTs and its holographic interpretation using the AdS/CFT correspondence. We explicitly perform analytical calculations of entanglement entropy between two…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-19 Ali Mollabashi , Noburo Shiba , Tadashi Takayanagi

The entanglement entropy has been historically studied by many authors in order to obtain quantum mechanical interpretations of the gravitational entropy. The discovery of AdS/CFT correspondence leads to the idea of holographic entanglement…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-04 Tadashi Takayanagi

This work explores holographic correlators within the frameworks of two-dimensional Boundary Conformal Field Theory (BCFT) and Crosscap Conformal Field Theory (XCFT). Utilizing the AdS/CFT correspondence, we compute stress tensor…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-03-13 Yun-Ze Li , Yunfei Xie , Song He

We discuss two methods that, through a combination of cyclically gluing copies of a given $n$-party boundary state in AdS/CFT and a canonical purification, creates a bulk geometry that contains a boundary homologous minimal surface with…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-10-21 Ning Bao , Newton Cheng