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Varying the Unruh Temperature in Integrable Quantum Field Theories

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-10-31 v2

Abstract

A computational scheme is developed to determine the response of a quantum field theory (QFT) with a factorized scattering operator under a variation of the Unruh temperature. To this end a new family of integrable systems is introduced, obtained by deforming such QFTs in a way that preserves the bootstrap S-matrix. The deformation parameter \beta plays the role of an inverse temperature for the thermal equilibrium states associated with the Rindler wedge, \beta = 2\pi being the QFT value. The form factor approach provides an explicit computational scheme for the \beta \neq 2\pi systems, enforcing in particular a modification of the underlying kinematical arena. As examples deformed counterparts of the Ising model and the Sinh-Gordon model are considered.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9807041,
  title  = {Varying the Unruh Temperature in Integrable Quantum Field Theories},
  author = {M. R. Niedermaier},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9807041},
  year   = {2009}
}

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34 pages, Latex, 3 Figures, minor changes