Quantum Entanglement and the Thermal Hadron
Nuclear Theory
2023-04-05 v1 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
High Energy Physics - Theory
Quantum Physics
Abstract
This paper tests how effectively the bound states of strongly interacting gauge theories are amenable to an emergent description as a thermal ensemble. This description can be derived from a conjectured minimum free energy principle, with the entanglement entropy of two-parton subsystems playing the role of thermodynamic entropy. This allows us to calculate the ground state hadron spectrum and wavefunction over a wide range of parton masses without solving the Schr\"{o}dinger equation. We carry out this analysis for certain illustrative models in 1+1 dimensions and discuss prospects for higher dimensions.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2211.14333,
title = {Quantum Entanglement and the Thermal Hadron},
author = {Pouya Asadi and Varun Vaidya},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2211.14333},
year = {2023}
}
Comments
22 pages , 6 figures