Timelike Boundary Sine-Gordon Theory and Two-Component Plasma

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dc.creatorJokela, Niko
dc.creatorKeski-Vakkuri, Esko
dc.creatorMajumder, Jaydeep
dc.date2007-09-10
dc.date2007-09-24
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T11:19:14Z
dc.date.available2026-07-07T11:19:14Z
dc.descriptionIt has long been known that there is a relation between boundary sine-Gordon theory and thermodynamics of charge neutral two-component Coulomb plasma on a unit circle. On the other hand, recently it was found that open string worldsheet description of brane decay can be related to a sequence of points of thermodynamic equilibrium of one-component plasma. Here we consider a different decay process which is specifically described by the timelike boundary sine-Gordon theory. We find time evolution to be mapped to a one-dimensional curve in the space of points of thermal equilibrium of a non-neutral two-component Coulomb plasma. We compute the free energy of the system and find that along the curve it is monotonously decreasing, defining a thermodynamic arrow of time.
dc.description11 pages, v2: reference added
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/0709.1318
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/0709.1318
dc.identifierPhys.Rev.D77:023523,2008
dc.identifierdoi:10.1103/PhysRevD.77.023523
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/193616
dc.subjectHigh Energy Physics - Theory
dc.subjectStatistical Mechanics
dc.titleTimelike Boundary Sine-Gordon Theory and Two-Component Plasma
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