Physics – Condensed Matter – Statistical Mechanics
Scientific paper
2010-11-01
J. Stat. Mech. (2011) P02008
Physics
Condensed Matter
Statistical Mechanics
8 pages. Minor improvements and updated references. Published version
Scientific paper
10.1088/1742-5468/2011/02/P02008
We investigate the corrections to scaling of the Renyi entropies of a region of size l at the end of a semi-infinite one-dimensional system described by a conformal field theory when the corrections come from irrelevant boundary operators. The corrections from irrelevant bulk operators with scaling dimension x have been studied by Cardy and Calabrese (2010), and they found not only the expected corrections of the form l^(4-2x) but also unusual corrections that could not have been anticipated by finite-size scaling arguments alone. However, for the case of perturbations from irrelevant boundary operators we find that the only corrections that can occur to leading order are of the form l^(2-2x_b) for boundary operators with scaling dimension x_b < 3/2, and l^(-1) when x_b > 3/2. When x_b=3/2 they are of the form l^(-1)log(l). A marginally irrelevant boundary perturbation will give leading corrections going as log(l)^(-3). No unusual corrections occur when perturbing with a boundary operator.
Eriksson Erik
Johannesson Henrik
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