Boundary Conditions for the Entanglement Cut in 2D Conformal Field Theories

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2503.12674v1
• Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2025 22:21:59 GMT
• Title: Boundary Conditions for the Entanglement Cut in 2D Conformal Field Theories
• Authors: Ananda Roy, Sergei L. Lukyanov, Hubert Saleur,
• Abstract summary: The entanglement spectra for a subsystem in a spin chain fine-tuned to a quantum-critical point contain signatures of the underlying quantum field theory.<n>For an open chain with given boundary conditions described by a 2D conformal field theory, the entanglement spectrum of the left/right half of the system coincides with a boundary CFT spectrum.<n>The obtained entanglement spectra are in good agreement with certain boundary CFT spectra.
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• Abstract: The entanglement spectra for a subsystem in a spin chain fine-tuned to a quantum-critical point contains signatures of the underlying quantum field theory that governs its low-energy properties. For an open chain with given boundary conditions described by a 2D conformal field theory~(CFT), the entanglement spectrum of the left/right half of the system coincides with a boundary CFT spectrum, where one of the boundary conditions arise due to the `entanglement cut'. The latter has been argued to be conformal and has been numerically found to be the `free' boundary condition for Ising, Potts and free boson theories. For these models, the `free' boundary condition for the lattice degree of freedom has a counterpart in the continuum theory. However, this is not true in general. Here, this question is analyzed for the unitary minimal models of 2D CFTs using the density matrix renormalization group technique. The entanglement spectra are computed for blocks of spins in open chains of A-type restricted solid-on-solid models with identical boundary conditions at the ends. The imposed boundary conditions are realized exactly for these lattice models due to their integrable nature. The obtained entanglement spectra are in good agreement with certain boundary CFT spectra. The boundary condition for the entanglement cut is found to be conformal and to coincide with the one with the highest boundary entropy. This identification enables determination of the exponents governing the unusual corrections to the entanglement entropy from the CFT partition functions. These are compared with numerical results.

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