Sine-Square deformation of conformal field theory

Abstract

By making use of conformal mapping, we construct various time-evolution operators in (1+1) dimensional conformal field theories (CFTs) deformed by some envelope function. Examples of such deformed evolution operators include the entanglement Hamiltonian, and the so-called sinesquare deformation of the CFT. Within our construction, the spectrum and the (finite-size) scaling of the level spacing of the deformed evolution operator are known exactly. Based on our construction, we also propose a regularized version of the sine-square deformation, which, in contrast to the original sine-square deformation, has the spectrum of the CFT defined on a spatial circle of finite circumference L, and for which the level spacing scales as 1/L2, once the circumference of the circle and the regularization parameter are suitably adjusted.