Modular Hamiltonians for the massless Dirac field in the presence of a boundary

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DOI10.1007/JHEP03(2021)204zbMATH Open1461.81072arXiv2012.00703OpenAlexW3106806761WikidataQ114233628 ScholiaQ114233628MaRDI QIDQ2028362FDOQ2028362

Mihail Mintchev, Erik Tonni

Publication date: 31 May 2021

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

Abstract: We study the modular Hamiltonians of an interval for the massless Dirac fermion on the half-line. The most general boundary conditions ensuring the global energy conservation lead to consider two phases, where either the vector or the axial symmetry is preserved. In these two phases we derive the corresponding modular Hamiltonian in explicit form. Its density involves a bi-local term localised in two points of the interval, one conjugate to the other. The associated modular flows are also established. Depending on the phase, they mix fields with different chirality or charge that follow different modular trajectories. Accordingly, the modular flow preserves either the vector or the axial symmetry. We compute the two-point correlation functions along the modular flow and show that they satisfy the Kubo-Martin-Schwinger condition in both phases. The entanglement entropies are also derived.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.00703




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