On Fundamentality of Heat

Motivated by the well-known contradiction of special relativity and the heat equation, a wave equation for temperature scalar field is presented that also resolves the old controversy of (Lorentz) transformation of temperature and entropy. After showing that the current dogma of temperature and entropy being emergent concepts is based on but a logical fallacy, it is proposed that single particles posses entropy. This principle of fundamentality of entropy is then shown to be compatible with the equipartition theorem by yielding corrections in the quantum gravity regime.

Temperature wave-like oscillations on ultra-short and ultra-fast time scales -INVITED

Recent findings in the frame of temperature wave-like oscillations on the ultra-short, ultra-fast time scales in solid states devices are here reviewed. The possibility for wave-like temperature oscillations are investigated at the light of the pass-band characteristic in w-k space for the temperature scalar field. The bandpass filter characteristics are accessed in terms of the heat carriers scattering times. The concepts here reviewed are of interest for perspective design of novel thermal nano-devices.

ASYMPTOTIC QUASINORMAL MODES IN EINSTEIN–GAUSS–BONNET GRAVITY

In this paper we consider a massive scalar field on the boundary of AdS space–time and calculate the quasinormal modes for the string inspired Einstein–Gauss–Bonnet gravity in five dimensions. We study the effects of Gauss–Bonnet parameter, temperature, scalar field's mass and momentum vector on the effective potential and quasinormal modes.

BLOCH–NORDSIECK ESTIMATES OF A HIGH-TEMPERATURE SCALAR FIELD THEORY

In anticipation of subsequent application to QED and QCD, we consider the case of a model, high temperature, relativistic, scalar field theory. We introduce into the exact, nonperturbative, functional expressions of this "quenched" model, a new Fradkin representation, and extract the infrared/Bloch–Nordsieck/(IR/BN) contributions of every perturbative graph, in order to circumvent the lack of a clear-cut separation of energy scales of previous semiperturbative treatments. Our results are applicable to the absorption of a fast particle which enters a heat bath, as well as to the propagation of a symmetric pulse within the thermal medium due to the appearance of an instantaneous, shockwave-like source acting in the medium. In momentum space, the former case displays a propagator which decays exponentially with increasing time, in addition to a new damping factor independent of time. The latter case displays an exponential growth with time of the symmetric pulse, generating effective and increasing plasmon waves, in competition with damping independent of time. When extended to QCD, qualitative applications could be made to RHIC scattering, in which a fireball appears, expands and is damped away.