Dipartimento di Matematica -UTV-

The reduced density matrix of a spatial subsystem can be written as the exponential of the modular Hamiltonian, hence this operator contains a lot of information about the entanglement of the corresponding spatial bipartition. First we consider the massless Dirac field on the half-line, imposing the most general boundary conditions that ensure the global energy conservation. This leads to two inequivalent phases where either the vector or the axial symmetry is preserved. In these two phases, we discuss the analytic expressions for the modular Hamiltonians of an interval on the half-line when the system is in its ground state, for the corresponding modular flows of the Dirac field and for the corresponding modular correlators. The method allows to obtain analytic expressions also for the modular Hamiltonians, the modular flows and the modular correlators for two disjoint equal intervals at the same distance from a point-like defect characterised by a unitary scattering matrix, that allows both reflection and transmission.