Thermal excitation spectrum from entanglement in an expanding quantum string
A region of an expanding relativistic QCD string is entangled with the complement region of Minkowski space. We discuss how this leads locally to a reduced mixed state density matrix and quantify the amount of entanglement in terms of the entanglement entropy. For very early Bjorken time $\tau$ we f...
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| Main Authors: | , , |
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| Format: | Article (Journal) Chapter/Article |
| Language: | English |
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2018
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Arxiv
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| Online Access: | Verlag, kostenfrei, Volltext: http://arxiv.org/abs/1707.05338
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| Author Notes: | Jürgen Berges, Stefan Floerchinger, and Raju Venugopalan |
| Summary: | A region of an expanding relativistic QCD string is entangled with the complement region of Minkowski space. We discuss how this leads locally to a reduced mixed state density matrix and quantify the amount of entanglement in terms of the entanglement entropy. For very early Bjorken time $\tau$ we find that the entanglement entropy is extensive and scales with the rapidity. Remarkably, at these early times, the reduced density matrix is of thermal form with a temperature $T=\hbar/(2\pi \tau)$, even in the absence of any scatterings. |
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| Item Description: | Gesehen am 26.06.2018 V1: 17 Jul 2017, last revised 6 Feb 2018 |
| Physical Description: | Online Resource |