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Thermal aspects of 2d QFTs
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I will present general constraints on (1+1)d QFTs obtained by imposing causality in the thermal state. One immediate consequence is the existence of a thermodynamic C-function, providing an alternative proof to Zamolodchikov's C-theorem. Similar considerations fix the sign of the TT-bar correction in non-integrable EFTs. Causality also severely constrains the out-of-equilibrium dynamics, by placing a strong lower bound on the local equilibration time beyond which hydrodynamics emerges as an effective description. This establishes the conjectured "Planckian bound" on thermalization in the context of (1+1)d QFTs.
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