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The Fermionic Massless Modular Hamiltonian
Francesca La Piana1, Gerardo Morsella2
1Department of Mathematics, University of Oslo, P.O. Box 1053, 0316 Blindern, Oslo, Norway.
Abstract:
We provide an explicit expression for the modular hamiltonian of the von Neumann algebras associated to the unit double cone for the (fermionic) quantum field theories of the 2-component Weyl (helicity 1/2) field, and of the 4-component massless Dirac and Majorana fields. To this end, we represent the one particle spaces of these theories in terms of solutions of the corresponding wave equations, and obtain the action of the modular group on them. As an application, we compute the relative entropy between the vacuum of the massless Majorana field and one particle states associated to waves with Cauchy data localized in the spatial unit ball.
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