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Entropy of very low energy localized states

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-10-30 v1

Abstract

We expand on previous work involving "vacuum-bounded" states, i.e., states such that every measurement performed outside a specified interior region gives the same result as in the vacuum. We improve our previous techniques by removing the need for a finite outside region in numerical calculations. We apply these techniques to the limit of very low energies and show that the entropy of a vacuum-bounded state can be much higher than that of a rigid box state with the same energy. For a fixed EE we let LinL_in' be the length of a rigid box which gives the same entropy as a vacuum-bounded state of length LinL_in. In the E0E\to 0 limit we conjecture that the ratio Lin/LinL_in'/L_in grows without bound and support this conjecture with numerical computations.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9709041,
  title  = {Entropy of very low energy localized states},
  author = {Ken D. Olum},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9709041},
  year   = {2009}
}

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27 pages, RevTeX, 7 postscript figures with epsf