Theory HEP Seminar

Generalised Gibbs Ensemble and Eigenstate thermalization in 1+1 CFTs

Simon Ross

Durham

I will discuss the comparison between energy eigenstates and an appropriate thermal ensemble for two-dimensional CFTs. The Virasoro symmetry leads to an infinite sequence of commuting conserved charges, dubbed the KdV charges, defined by taking products of Virasoro generators. I will discuss the structure of the Generalised Gibbs Ensemble with chemical potentials for these KdV charges