Conformal quantum mechanics of causal diamonds

DOI10.1007/JHEP05(2020)072zbMATH Open1437.81073arXiv2002.01836OpenAlexW3004863665MaRDI QIDQ779341FDOQ779341

Michele Arzano

Publication date: 21 July 2020

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

Abstract: It is shown that a general radial conformal Killing vector in Minkowski space-time can be associated to a generator of time evolution in conformal quantum mechanics. Among these conformal Killing vectors one finds a class which maps causal diamonds in Minkowski space-time into themselves. The flow of such Killing vectors describes worldlines of accelerated observers with a finite lifetime within the causal diamond. Time evolution of static diamond observers is equivalent to time evolution in conformal quantum mechanics governed by a hyperbolic Hamiltonian and covering only a segment of the time axis. This indicates that the Unruh temperature perceived by static diamond observers in the vacuum state of inertial observers in Minkowski space can be obtained from the behaviour of the two-point functions of conformal quantum mechanics.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.01836

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zbMATH Keywords

conformal and W symmetryspace-time symmetrieslight-cone temperature

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Classical and relativistic thermodynamics (80A10) Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics (81T40)

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