Localized thermal states and negative energy

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Publication:2283529

DOI10.1007/JHEP10(2019)246zbMATH Open1427.81148arXiv1907.07699MaRDI QIDQ2283529FDOQ2283529


Authors: Felipe Rosso Edit this on Wikidata


Publication date: 2 January 2020

Published in: Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We construct localized states defined in a ball or the half-space of a conformal field theory (CFT) in Minkowski that are thermal with respect to the local modular flow. We compute their energy density at arbitrary temperature for a variety of CFTs, and find values for which it is negative and divergent at the boundary. Despite this singular behavior we show that the energy measured by an observer is consistent with the bounds present in the literature. For holographic CFTs these states are captured by hyperbolic black holes in anti-de Sitter, where the negative energy in field theory amounts to the well known negative mass of the black hole. As a byproduct, we show that the Casini-Huerta-Myers proof of the Ryu-Takayangi holographic entanglement formula for the vacuum reduced to a ball can be naturally extended to include half-space regions.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.07699




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