Probe branes, time-dependent couplings and thermalization in AdS/CFT
By Sumit R. Das, T. Nishioka, T. Takayanagi. 2010
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We present holographic descriptions of thermalization in conformal field theories using probe D-branes in AdS × S space-times. We find that the induced metrics on Dp-brane worldvolumes which are rotating in an internal sphere direction have horizons with characteristic Hawking temperatures even if there is no black hole in the bulk AdS. The AdS/CFT correspondence applied to such systems indeed reveals thermal properties such as Brownian motions and AC conductivities in the dual conformal field theories. We also use this framework to holographically analyze time-dependent systems undergoing a quantum quench, where parameters in quantum field theories, such as a mass or a coupling constant, are suddenly changed. We confirm that this leads to thermal behavior by demonstrating the formation of apparent horizons in the induced metric after a certain time.
Subfields: Astronomy and Astrophysics, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics
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- A Holographic View on Physics out of Equilibrium (2010, background): “We should also note that there has recently been some progress in holographic modelling of quantum quench behaviour in [169].”
- Holographic evolution of the mutual information (2011, unknown): “Other holographic thermalization setup have been also studied [37].”