Abstract

This paper tests how effectively the bound states of strongly-interacting gauge theories are amenable to an emergent description as a thermal ensemble. This description can be derived from a conjectured minimum free-energy principle, with the entanglement entropy of two-parton subsystems playing the role of thermodynamic entropy. This allows us to calculate the ground-state hadron spectrum and wave function over a wide range of parton masses without solving the Schr\"odinger equation. We carry out this analysis for certain illustrative models in ($1+1$) dimensions and discuss prospects for higher dimensions.

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