Speaker
Andreas Karch
(UT Austin)
Description
2d conformal interfaces are thought to be described by a few universal quantities, the boundary entropy, and two central charge like quantities controlling energy and information transport across the interface. We will demonstrate that in the presence of dissipation there is a third universal central charge characterizing the flow of dissipation across the interface. It is universal in that it is insensitive to the microscopic details of the coupling to the environment and only depends on the properties of the interface.
