Published August 15, 2009 | Version v1
Journal article

String entanglement and D-branes as pure states

  • 1. IFLP-CONICET and Departamento de Fisica, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, cc67, CP1900 La Plata (Argentina)

Description

We study the entanglement of closed strings degrees of freedom in order to investigate the microscopic structure and statistics of objects as D-branes. By considering the macroscopic pure state limit, whenever the entanglement entropy goes to zero (in such a way that the macroscopic properties of the state are preserved), we show that boundary states may be recovered in this limit and, furthermore, the description through closed string (perturbative) degrees of freedom collapses. We also show how the thermal properties of branes and closed strings could be described by this model, and it requires that dissipative effects be taken into account. Extensions of the macroscopic pure state analysis to more general systems at finite temperature are finally emphasized.

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physical Review. D, Particles Fields
Journal Volume
80
Journal Issue
4
Journal Page Range
p. 046001-046001.8
ISSN
0556-2821
CODEN
PRVDAQ

INIS

Country of Publication
United States
Country of Input or Organization
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
INIS RN
41063644
Subject category
S72: PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS;
Descriptors DEI
D-BRANES; DEGREES OF FREEDOM; ENTROPY; QUANTUM ENTANGLEMENT; STRING MODELS
Descriptors DEC
BRANES; COMPOSITE MODELS; EXTENDED PARTICLE MODEL; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARTICLE MODELS; PHYSICAL PROPERTIES; QUARK MODEL; THERMODYNAMIC PROPERTIES

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