2014
DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.1403.6475
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On Holographic Defect Entropy

John Estes,
Kristan Jensen,
Andy O'Bannon
et al.

Abstract: We study a number of (3 + 1)-and (2 + 1)-dimensional defect and boundary conformal field theories holographically dual to supergravity theories. In all cases the defects or boundaries are planar, and the defects are codimension-one. Using holography, we compute the entanglement entropy of a (hemi-)spherical region centered on the defect (boundary). We define defect and boundary entropies from the entanglement entropy by an appropriate background subtraction. For some (3 + 1)-dimensional theories we find eviden… Show more

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“…The drawback is that these supergravity solutions are considerably more complicated than their artificial bottom-up relatives. In particular, most holographic computations conducted to date with top-down solutions have focused on boundary or entanglement entropy [34,36,44,45,46,47], for which there exist a simple holographic prescription due to Ryu and Takayanagi [48] (see also [49,50,51] for non-supersymmetric examples). It seems particularly difficult to extract any correlation function whose form is not completely fixed by the residual defect conformal symmetry.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The drawback is that these supergravity solutions are considerably more complicated than their artificial bottom-up relatives. In particular, most holographic computations conducted to date with top-down solutions have focused on boundary or entanglement entropy [34,36,44,45,46,47], for which there exist a simple holographic prescription due to Ryu and Takayanagi [48] (see also [49,50,51] for non-supersymmetric examples). It seems particularly difficult to extract any correlation function whose form is not completely fixed by the residual defect conformal symmetry.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…2 The AdS/BCFT has been applied to many problems. This includes the studied of renormalization group flow [61][62][63][64], applications to models in condensed matter physics or statistical mechanics [65][66][67][68][69][70][71][72][73], and to computational complexity [74][75][76][77]. Refer also to [78][79][80][81][82][83][84] for string theory embeddings, to [85][86][87][88] for application to cosmological models and to [89,90] for higher codimension holography.…”
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confidence: 99%
“…Another holographic observable which can be calculated is the entanglement entropy in the presence of a defect (see e.g. [36][37][38][39]). General arguments relate this quantity to the ones already calculated in this section.…”
Section: Stress Tensor and Currentsmentioning
confidence: 99%