TY - JOUR
T1 - Open string theory as dissipative quantum mechanics
AU - Callan, Curtis Gove
AU - Thorlacius, L.
N1 - Funding Information:
* Work supported by the Department of Energy, contract DE-AC03-76SF00515. ** Supported in part by DOE grant DE-AC02-84-15534.
PY - 1990/1/1
Y1 - 1990/1/1
N2 - We argue that vacuum configuration of open strings correspond to Caldeira-Leggett models of dissipative quantum mechanics (DQM) evaluated at a delocalization critical point. This connection reveals that critical DQM can be expected to manifest reparametrization invariance (inherited from the conformal invariance of string theory) rather than just scale invariance. This connection should open up new ways of constructing analytic and approximate solutions of open string theory (in particular, topological solitons such as monopoles and instantons).
AB - We argue that vacuum configuration of open strings correspond to Caldeira-Leggett models of dissipative quantum mechanics (DQM) evaluated at a delocalization critical point. This connection reveals that critical DQM can be expected to manifest reparametrization invariance (inherited from the conformal invariance of string theory) rather than just scale invariance. This connection should open up new ways of constructing analytic and approximate solutions of open string theory (in particular, topological solitons such as monopoles and instantons).
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U2 - 10.1016/0550-3213(90)90060-Q
DO - 10.1016/0550-3213(90)90060-Q
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0000274716
SN - 0550-3213
VL - 329
SP - 117
EP - 138
JO - Nuclear Physics, Section B
JF - Nuclear Physics, Section B
IS - 1
ER -