THERMAL ENSEMBLE OF STRING GAS IN A MAGNETIC-FIELD

被引:11
作者
RUSSO, JG [1 ]
机构
[1] UNIV TEXAS,DEPT PHYS,THEORY GRP,AUSTIN,TX 78712
基金
美国国家科学基金会;
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10.1016/0370-2693(94)91408-7
中图分类号
P1 [天文学];
学科分类号
0704 ;
摘要
We study the thermal ensemble of a gas of free strings in presence of a magnetic field. We find that the thermodynamical partition function diverges when the magnetic field exceeds some critical value B(cr), which depends on the temperature. We argue that there is a first-order phase transition with a large latent heat. At the critical value an infinite number of states-all states in a Regge trajectory-seem to become massless, which may be an indication of recuperation of spontaneously broken symmetries.
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