Boundary entropy can increase under bulk RG flow

DOI10.1016/J.NUCLPHYSB.2008.01.010MaRDI QIDQ952355zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Daniel Green, Michael Mulligan, David Starr

Publication date 12 November 2008

Published in Nuclear Physics B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0710.4348

zbMATH Keywords

RG flowboundary conformal field theoryboundary entropy

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Renormalization group methods applied to problems in quantum field theory (81T17)

Abstract: The boundary entropy log(g) of a critical one-dimensional quantum system (or two-dimensional conformal field theory) is known to decrease under renormalization group (RG) flow of the boundary theory. We study instead the behavior of the boundary entropy as the bulk theory flows between two nearby critical points. We use conformal perturbation theory to calculate the change in g due to a slightly relevant bulk perturbation and find that it has no preferred sign. The boundary entropy log(g) can therefore increase during appropriate bulk flows. This is demonstrated explicitly in flows between minimal models. We discuss the applications of this result to D-branes in string theory and to impurity problems in condensed matter.

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