Entropy in quantum chromodynamics

DOI10.1142/S021773231230011XzbMATH Open1274.81227arXiv1203.6618MaRDI QIDQ2861671FDOQ2861671

Authors: John M. Cornwall 

Publication date: 11 November 2013

Published in: Modern Physics Letters A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We review the role of zero-temperature entropy in several closely-related contexts in QCD. The first is entropy associated with disordered condensates, including $<G_{muu}^2>$. The second is vacuum entropy arising from QCD solitons such as center vortices, yielding confinement and chiral symmetry breaking. The third is entanglement entropy, which is entropy associated with a pure state, such as the QCD vacuum, when the state is partially unobserved and unknown. Typically, entanglement entropy of an unobserved three-volume scales not with the volume but with the area of its bounding surface. The fourth manifestation of entropy in QCD is the configurational entropy of light-particle world-lines and flux tubes; we argue that this entropy is critical for understanding how confinement produces chiral symmetry breakdown, as manifested by a dynamically-massive quark, a massless pion, and a $$ condensate.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1203.6618

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zbMATH Keywords

entropyconfinementQCD

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Measures of information, entropy (94A17) Soliton solutions (35C08) Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to quantum theory (81-02) Quantum coherence, entanglement, quantum correlations (81P40) Symmetry breaking in quantum theory (81R40) Strong interaction, including quantum chromodynamics (81V05) Statistical thermodynamics (82B30) Disordered systems (random Ising models, random Schrödinger operators, etc.) in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B44)

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