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Eigenstate Thermalization Hypothesis in Conformal Field Theory (1610.00302v1)
Published 2 Oct 2016 in hep-th, cond-mat.stat-mech, cond-mat.str-el, and quant-ph
Abstract: We investigate the eigenstate thermalization hypothesis (ETH) in d+1 dimensional conformal field theories by studying reduced density matrices in energy eigenstates. We show that if local probes of high energy primary eigenstates satisfy ETH, then any finite energy observable with support on a subsystem of finite size satisfies ETH. In two dimensions, we discover that if ETH holds locally, the finite size reduced density matrix of states created by heavy primary operators is well-approximated by a projection to the Virasoro identity block.
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