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Record Nr.

UNINA9910300548303321

Autore

Probst Jonas

Titolo

Applications of the Gauge/Gravity Duality / / by Jonas Probst

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2018

ISBN

3-319-93967-X

Edizione

[1st ed. 2018.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XV, 141 p. 7 illus., 4 illus. in color.)

Collana

Springer Theses, Recognizing Outstanding Ph.D. Research, , 2190-5053

Disciplina

530.41

Soggetti

Superconductivity

Superconductors

Mathematical physics

Solid state physics

Strongly Correlated Systems, Superconductivity

Theoretical, Mathematical and Computational Physics

Solid State Physics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- The Gauge/Gravity Duality -- Correlators and Transport -- Second-Order Hydrodynamics and Universality in Non-Conformal Holographic Fluids -- A Holographic Kondo Model -- Conclusion.

Sommario/riassunto

This book begins with a pedagogical introduction to how duality can be used to extract transport properties of quantum systems from their gravity dual. It then presents new results on hydrodynamic transport in strongly interacting quantum fluids and provides strong evidence that the Haack-Yarom identity between second-order transport coefficients holds for all fluids with a classical gravity dual and may be a universal feature of all strongly coupled quantum fluids such as the quark-gluon plasma (QGP). Many open questions in theoretical physics pertain to strongly interacting quantum systems such as the quark-gluon plasma (QGP) produced in heavy-ion collisions or the strange-metal phase observed in many high-temperature superconductors. These systems are notoriously difficult to study using traditional methods such as perturbation theory, but the gauge/gravity duality offers a successful



alternative approach, which maps strongly interacting quantum gauge theories to computationally tractable, classical gravity theories. Newly derived Kubo formulae, expressing transport coefficients in terms of quantum correlators, hold independently of the duality. Lastly, the book discusses new findings on magnetic impurities in strongly correlated metals, including the first dual gravity description of an inter-impurity coupling, crucial for the quantum criticality underlying the strange metal phase.