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Holographic entanglement entropy for surface operators and defects
Mathematical Physics Seminar| Speaker: | Michael Gutperle, Department of Physics and Astronomy, UCLA |
| Related Webpage: | http://www.physics.ucla.edu/~gutperle/ |
| Location: | 2112 MSB |
| Start time: | Thu, Apr 21 2016, 3:10PM |
We review the holographic description of surface operators and defects using bubbling supergravity solutions. The calculation of the Ryu-Takayanagi entanglement entropy in the presence of such operators is presented and comparisons to field theory results are presented.