How far does the analogy between causal horizon-induced thermalization with the standard heat bath situation go?

Abstract

After a short presentation of KMS states and modular theory as the unifying description of thermalizing systems we propose the absence of transverse vacuum fluctuations in the holographic projections as the mechanism for an area behavior (the transverse area) of localization entropy as opposed to the volume dependence of ordinary heat bath entropy. Thermalization through causal localization is not a property of QM, but results from the omnipresent vacuum polarization in QFT and does not require a Gibbs type ensemble avaraging (coupling to a heat bath).

10 pages, based on talk given at the 2002 Londrina Winter School

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• Reconstructing the thermal Green functions at real times from those at imaginary times
• The paradigm of the area law and the structure of transversal and longitudinal lightfront degrees of freedom

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