Gluing together modular flows with free fermions

DOI10.1007/JHEP04(2019)045zbMath1415.81039arXiv1805.10651WikidataQ128108587 ScholiaQ128108587MaRDI QIDQ2421631

Gabriel Wong

Publication date: 17 June 2019

Published in: Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We revisit the calculation of multi-interval modular Hamiltonians for free fermions using a Euclidean path integral approach. We show how the multi-interval modular flow is obtained by gluing together the single interval modular flows. Using this relation, we obtain an exact expression for the multi-interval modular Hamiltonian and entanglement entropy in agreement with existing results. An essential ingredient in our derivation is the introduction of the emp{modular action}. This determines the non-local field theory describing the free fermion reduced density matrix, and makes manifest it's non-local conformal symmetry and $U(1)$ Kacs-Moody symmetry.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.10651

zbMATH Keywords

conformal field theorypath integralconformal and W symmetryboundary quantum field theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Kac-Moody (super)algebras; extended affine Lie algebras; toroidal Lie algebras (17B67) Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics (81T40) Model quantum field theories (81T10) Path integrals in quantum mechanics (81S40) Spinor and twistor methods in general relativity and gravitational theory; Newman-Penrose formalism (83C60) Quantum coherence, entanglement, quantum correlations (81P40)

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