Holographic BCFTs and communicating black holes

We study the AdS/BCFT duality between two-dimensional conformal field theories with two boundaries and three-dimensional anti-de Sitter space with two KarchRandall branes. We compute the entanglement entropy of a bipartition of the BCFT, on both the gravity side and the field theory side. At finite temperature this entanglement entropy characterizes the communication between two braneworld black holes, coupled to each other through a common bath. We find a Page curve consistent with unitarity. The gravitational result, computed using double-holographically realized quantum extremal surfaces, matches the conformal field theory calculation. At zero temperature, we obtain an interesting extension of the AdS3/BCFT2 correspondence. For a central charge c, we find a gap ( c/16, c/12) in the spectrum of the scaling dimension Delta bcc of the boundary condition changing operator (which interpolates mismatched boundary conditions on the two boundaries of the BCFT). Depending on the value of Delta bcc, the gravitational dual is either a defect global AdS3 geometry or a single sided black hole, and in both cases there are two Karch-Randall branes.

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The study explores the AdS/BCFT duality between two-dimensional conformal field theories and three-dimensional anti-de Sitter space with KarchRandall branes, focusing on entanglement entropy and communication between braneworld black holes. A consistent Page curve is found, with gravitational results matching field theory calculations. At zero temperature, an interesting extension to the AdS3/BCFT2 correspondence is uncovered, revealing different gravitational duals based on the value of Delta bcc.