T-Reflection

DOI10.1103/PHYSREVD.91.106004MaRDI QIDQ6252606zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Gökçe Başar, Aleksey Cherman, David A. McGady, Masahito Yamazaki

Publication date 24 June 2014

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1103/PHYSREVD.91.106004

Abstract: We point out the presence of a $To-T$ temperature-reflection ($T$-reflection) symmetry for the partition functions of many physical systems. Without knowledge of the origin of the symmetry, we have only been able to test the existence of $T$-reflection symmetry in systems with exactly-calculable partition functions. We show that $T$-reflection symmetry is present in a variety of conformal and non-conformal field theories and statistical mechanics models with known partition functions. For example, all minimal model partition functions in two-dimensional conformal field theories are invariant under $T$-reflections. An interesting property of the $T$-reflection symmetry is that it can be broken by shifts of the vacuum energy.

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