<p>We compute a gravitational on-shell action of a finite, spherically symmetric causal diamond in (<i>d</i> + 2)-dimensional Minkowski spacetime, finding it is proportional to the area of the bifurcate horizon <InlineEquation ID="IEq1"> <EquationSource Format="MATHML"><math display="inline"> <msub> <mi>A</mi> <mi mathvariant="script">B</mi> </msub> </math></EquationSource> <EquationSource Format="TEX">\( {A}_{\mathcal{B}} \)</EquationSource> </InlineEquation>. We then identify the on-shell action with the saddle point of the Euclidean gravitational path integral, which is naturally interpreted as a partition function. This partition function is thermal with respect to a modular Hamiltonian <i>K</i>. Consequently, we determine, from the on-shell action using standard thermodynamic identities, both the mean and variance of the modular Hamiltonian, finding 〈<i>K</i>〉 = 〈(∆<i>K</i>)<sup>2</sup>〉 = <InlineEquation ID="IEq2"> <EquationSource Format="MATHML"><math display="inline"> <mfrac> <msub> <mi>A</mi> <mi mathvariant="script">B</mi> </msub> <mrow> <mn>4</mn> <msub> <mi>G</mi> <mi>N</mi> </msub> </mrow> </mfrac> </math></EquationSource> <EquationSource Format="TEX">\( \frac{A_{\mathcal{B}}}{4{G}_N} \)</EquationSource> </InlineEquation>. Finally, we show that modular fluctuations give rise to fluctuations in the geometry, and compute the associated phase shift of massless particles traversing the diamond under such fluctuations.</p>

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Thermodynamics of a spherically symmetric causal diamond in Minkowski spacetime

  • Kwinten Fransen,
  • Temple He,
  • Kathryn M. Zurek

摘要

We compute a gravitational on-shell action of a finite, spherically symmetric causal diamond in (d + 2)-dimensional Minkowski spacetime, finding it is proportional to the area of the bifurcate horizon A B \( {A}_{\mathcal{B}} \) . We then identify the on-shell action with the saddle point of the Euclidean gravitational path integral, which is naturally interpreted as a partition function. This partition function is thermal with respect to a modular Hamiltonian K. Consequently, we determine, from the on-shell action using standard thermodynamic identities, both the mean and variance of the modular Hamiltonian, finding 〈K〉 = 〈(∆K)2〉 = A B 4 G N \( \frac{A_{\mathcal{B}}}{4{G}_N} \) . Finally, we show that modular fluctuations give rise to fluctuations in the geometry, and compute the associated phase shift of massless particles traversing the diamond under such fluctuations.