Typicality versus thermality: An analytic distinction

DOI10.1007/S10714-008-0606-8zbMATH Open1152.83371arXivhep-th/0701122OpenAlexW3099485124WikidataQ59830386 ScholiaQ59830386MaRDI QIDQ960072FDOQ960072

Authors: Vijay Balasubramanian, Veronika E. Hubeny, Klaus Larjo, Mukund Rangamani, Joan Simón, Bartłomiej Czech 

Publication date: 16 December 2008

Published in: General Relativity and Gravitation (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In systems with a large degeneracy of states such as black holes, one expects that the average value of probe correlation functions will be well approximated by the thermal ensemble. To understand how correlation functions in individual microstates differ from the canonical ensemble average and from each other, we study the variances in correlators. Using general statistical considerations, we show that the variance between microstates will be exponentially suppressed in the entropy. However, by exploiting the analytic properties of correlation functions we argue that these variances are amplified in imaginary time, thereby distinguishing pure states from the thermal density matrix. We demonstrate our general results in specific examples and argue that our results apply to the microstates of black holes.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0701122

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zbMATH Keywords

typicalitythermalityvariances between microstates

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Methods of quantum field theory in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C47) Black holes (83C57)

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