The power of AQFT: the area law for entropy of localized quantum matter
arXiv:hep-th/0610225
Abstract
The algebraic approach to QFT, which for several decades has enriched QFT with structural theorems, has recently shown its utility in various constructions of actual interest. In these lecture notes I explain how AQFT (in particular the modular theory of operator algebras) implies paradigmatic conceptual and mathematical changes while fully preserving the physical principles which underly QFT. As an illustration of actual interest I use holography on null-surfaces and the ensuing area law for entropy of localized matter in the vacuum state.
arXiv comment18 pages, submitted contribution to Fifth International Conference on Mathematical Methods in Physics April 2006, Rio de Janeiro, various improvements and additions
References in corpus (8)
- The generally covariant locality principle -- A new paradigm for local quantum physics
- Modular Wedge Localization and the d=1+1 Formfactor Program
- Exact form factors in integrable quantum field theories: the scaling Z(N)-Ising model
- On the manifestations of particles
- Two-dimensional models as testing ground for principles and concepts of local quantum physics
- Towards a Background Independent Formulation of Perturbative Quantum Gravity
- Lectures on Elliptic Functions and Modular Forms in Conformal Field Theory
- From Conformal Haag-Kastler Nets to Wightman Functions