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Local Thermal Equilibrium States and Unruh Detectors in Quantum Field Theory

High Energy Physics - Theory 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

In the framework of local thermodynamic equilibrium by Buchholz, Ojima and Roos, a class S_x of observables, whose members are supposed to model idealized measurements of thermal properties of given states at spacetime points x, plays a crucial role in determining and characterizing local equilibrium states in quantum field theory. Here it will be shown how elements from this space can be reproduced by a specific model of the idealized measurements modeled by an Unruh-de Witt detector.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0702096,
  title  = {Local Thermal Equilibrium States and Unruh Detectors in Quantum Field Theory},
  author = {Jan Schlemmer},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0702096},
  year   = {2007}
}

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12 pages, no figures