Entropy of very low energy localized states
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 we let be the length of a rigid box which gives the same entropy as a vacuum-bounded state of length . In the limit we conjecture that the ratio 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}
}
Comments
27 pages, RevTeX, 7 postscript figures with epsf