On the continuum limit of the entanglement Hamiltonian of a sphere for the free massless scalar field

Abstract

Abstract We study the continuum limit of the entanglement Hamiltonian of a sphere for the massless scalar field in its ground state by employing the lattice model defined through the discretisation of the radial direction. In two and three spatial dimensions and for small values of the total angular momentum, we find numerical results in agreement with the corresponding ones derived from the entanglement Hamiltonian predicted by conformal field theory. When the mass parameter in the lattice model is large enough, the dominant contributions come from the on-site and the nearest-neighbour terms, whose weight functions are straight lines.

Keywords

• Field Theories in Higher Dimensions
• Lattice Quantum Field Theory
• Conformal Field Theory