Holographic BCFTs and Communicating Black Holes

Apr 14, 2021
43 pages
Published in:
  • JHEP 08 (2021) 003
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Abstract: (arXiv)
We study the AdS/BCFT duality between two-dimensional conformal field theories with two boundaries and three-dimensional anti-de Sitter space with two Karch-Randall branes. We compute the entanglement entropy of a bipartition of the BCFT, on both the gravity side and the field theory side. At finite temperature this entanglement entropy characterizes the communication between two braneworld black holes, coupled to each other through a common bath. We find a Page curve consistent with unitarity. The gravitational result, computed using double-holographically realized quantum extremal surfaces, matches the conformal field theory calculation. At zero temperature, we obtain an interesting extension of the AdS3_3/BCFT2_2 correspondence. For a central charge cc, we find a gap (c16,c12)(\frac{c}{16},\frac{c}{12}) in the spectrum of the scaling dimension Δbcc\Delta_{\text{bcc}} of the boundary condition changing operator (which interpolates mismatched boundary conditions on the two boundaries of the BCFT). Depending on the value of Δbcc\Delta_{\text{bcc}}, the gravitational dual is either a defect global AdS3_3 geometry or a single sided black hole, and in both cases there are two Karch-Randall branes.
Note:
  • 43 pages, 9 figures, published version in JHEP
  • field theory: conformal
  • entropy: entanglement
  • gravitation: duality
  • scaling: dimension
  • defect: global
  • membrane model
  • black hole
  • finite temperature
  • AdS/CFT correspondence