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Entanglement Entropy and Boundary Conditions in 1+1 Dimensions
Ben Michel, Mark Srednicki
Calculations of the entanglement entropy of a spatial region in continuum quantum field theory require boundary conditions on the fields at the fictitious boundary of the region. T…
Remarks on Rindler Quantization
Ben Michel
We review the quantization of scalar and gauge fields using Rindler coordinates with an emphasis on the physics of the Rindler horizon. In the thermal state at the Unruh temperatur…
A rough end for smooth microstate geometries
Donald Marolf, Ben Michel, Andrea Puhm
Supersymmetric microstate geometries with five non-compact dimensions have recently been shown by Eperon, Reall, and Santos (ERS) to exhibit a non-linear instability featuring the…
Electromagnetic Duality and Entanglement Anomalies
William Donnelly, Ben Michel, Aron Wall
Duality is an indispensable tool for describing the strong-coupling dynamics of gauge theories. However, its actual realization is often quite subtle: quantities such as the partit…
Living on the Edge: A Toy Model for Holographic Reconstruction of Algebras with Centers
William Donnelly, Ben Michel, Donald Marolf +1
We generalize the Pastawski-Yoshida-Harlow-Preskill (HaPPY) holographic quantum error-correcting code to provide a toy model for bulk gauge fields or linearized gravitons. The key…
Four-point function in the IOP matrix model
Ben Michel, Joseph Polchinski, Vladimir Rosenhaus +1
The IOP model is a quantum mechanical system of a large- matrix oscillator and a fundamental oscillator, coupled through a quartic interaction. It was introduced previously as a…