How far does the analogy between causal horizon-induced thermalization with the standard heat bath situation go?
High Energy Physics - Theory
2009-11-10 v1
Abstract
After a short presentation of KMS states and modular theory as the unifying description of thermalizing systems we propose the absence of transverse vacuum fluctuations in the holographic projections as the mechanism for an area behavior (the transverse area) of localization entropy as opposed to the volume dependence of ordinary heat bath entropy. Thermalization through causal localization is not a property of QM, but results from the omnipresent vacuum polarization in QFT and does not require a Gibbs type ensemble avaraging (coupling to a heat bath).
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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0301082,
title = {How far does the analogy between causal horizon-induced thermalization with the standard heat bath situation go?},
author = {Bert Schroer},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0301082},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
10 pages, based on talk given at the 2002 Londrina Winter School