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Eigenstate Thermalization Hypothesis in Conformal Field Theory

High Energy Physics - Theory 2018-03-09 v1 Statistical Mechanics Strongly Correlated Electrons Quantum Physics

Abstract

We investigate the eigenstate thermalization hypothesis (ETH) in d+1 dimensional conformal field theories by studying reduced density matrices in energy eigenstates. We show that if local probes of high energy primary eigenstates satisfy ETH, then any finite energy observable with support on a subsystem of finite size satisfies ETH. In two dimensions, we discover that if ETH holds locally, the finite size reduced density matrix of states created by heavy primary operators is well-approximated by a projection to the Virasoro identity block.

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@article{arxiv.1610.00302,
  title  = {Eigenstate Thermalization Hypothesis in Conformal Field Theory},
  author = {Nima Lashkari and Anatoly Dymarsky and Hong Liu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1610.00302},
  year   = {2018}
}

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8 Pages, 3 figures

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