Entanglement in Presence of Topological Interfaces and Dualities

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2607.22451v1
• Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2026 16:13:20 GMT
• Title: Entanglement in Presence of Topological Interfaces and Dualities
• Abstract summary: Entanglement through interfaces has attracted considerable attention in 2d conformal field theory.<n>A new framework for entanglement through topological defects was recently proposed in [5].<n>We show that the reduced density matrix for a duality interface is the projection of the vacuum reduced density matrix onto a single symmetry sector.
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• Abstract: Entanglement through interfaces has attracted considerable attention in 2d conformal field theory (CFT). However, it is known that field-theoretic predictions based on the existing framework are in general incompatible with numerical results [1-4]. A new framework for entanglement through topological defects was recently proposed in [5]. It provides a general description of entanglement through topological defects and successfully reproduces the numerical results for the Ising model in all tested cases and regimes. The key insight is that the relevant quantum correlations are encoded in twisted states, allowing for the construction of the full reduced density matrix (RDM). In this work we pursue two objectives. First, we provide new examples by studying defects in the free boson CFT. Second, we extend the framework to topological interfaces connecting two, possibly distinct, CFTs. Of particular interest are interfaces relating dual theories. We show that the reduced density matrix for a duality interface is the projection of the vacuum reduced density matrix onto a single symmetry sector, closely paralleling the framework of symmetry resolution. Unlike symmetry resolution, however, the projection is imposed by the physical interface itself, demonstrating that duality interfaces reflect quantum correlations back into the entangling interval. We establish this mechanism for diagonal and non-diagonal rational CFTs as well as the free boson CFT. Relative entropy allows us to quantify the distinguishability of the duality interface RDM from the vacuum RDM.

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