SU(2) Yang–Mills Theory: Waves, Particles, and Quantum Thermodynamics

SU(2) Yang–Mills Theory: Waves, Particles, and Quantum Thermodynamics

We elucidate how Quantum Thermodynamics at temperature T emerges from pure and classical S U ( 2 ) Yang–Mills theory on a four-dimensional Euclidean spacetime slice S 1 × R 3 . The concept of a (deconfining) thermal ground state, composed of certain solutions to the fundamenta...

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Main Author: Ralf Hofmann
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2016-08-01
Series:Entropy
Subjects:
Harrington–Shepard caloron
(anti)selfduality
electric and magnetic dipole densities
vacuum permittivity and permeability
Poincaré group
quantum of action
Boltzmann weight
Bose–Einstein distribution function
Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/18/9/310

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