THERMAL BEHAVIOR INDUCED BY VACUUM POLARIZATION ON CAUSAL HORIZONS IN COMPARISON WITH THE STANDARD HEAT BATH FORMALISM

DOI10.1142/S0217751X04020518zbMATH Open1080.82507MaRDI QIDQ3370328FDOQ3370328

Authors Bert Schroer

Publication date 7 February 2006

Published in International Journal of Modern Physics A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0301107

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum field theory on curved space or space-time backgrounds (81T20) Quantum equilibrium statistical mechanics (general) (82B10) Applications of selfadjoint operator algebras to physics (46L60)

Abstract: Modular theory of operator algebras and the associated KMS property are used to obtain a unified description for the thermal aspects of the standard heat bath situation and those caused by quantum vacuum fluctuations from localization. An algebraic variant of lightfront holography reveals that the vacuum polarization on wedge horizons is compressed into the lightray direction. Their absence in the transverse direction is the prerequisite to an area (generalized Bekenstein-) behavior of entropy-like measures which reveal the loss of purity of the vacuum due to restrictions to wedges and their horizons. Besides the well-known fact that localization-induced (generalized Hawking-) temperature is fixed by the geometric aspects, this area behavior (versus the standard volume dependence) constitutes the main difference between localization-caused and standard thermal behavior.

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