Questions tagged [ads-cft]
AdS/CFT is a special case of the holographic principle. It states that a quantum gravitating theory in Anti-de-Sitter (AdS) space is exactly equivalent to the gauge theory/Conformal Field Theory (CFT) on its boundary.
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How much can AdS/CMT tell us?
I will begin my research on AdS/CMT, however I find AdS/CMT is only a phenomelogical method, so I want to know can AdS/CMT give some results the condensed matter physicists can not give, or even ...
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Viscosity/Entropy ratio and unitary evolution in quantum gravity
Calculations of the shear viscosity of the quark-gluon plasma (QGP), observed in heavy ions collisions, are performed via the AdS/CFT correspondence [ref1]. One finds that the shear viscosity of the ...
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Scale dependence of energy dissipation in viscous flow via AdS/CFT
The famous AdS/CFT calculation of the shear viscosity/entropy ratio for strongly coupled $N=4$ SYM relates the shear viscosity to the absorption cross section for fluctuations of the metric onto a ...
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Treatment of boundary terms when applying the variational principle
One of the main sources of subtlety in the AdS/CFT correspondence is the role played by boundary terms in the action. For example, for a scalar field in AdS there is range of masses just above the ...
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Has the black hole information loss paradox been settled?
This question was triggered by a comment of Peter Shor's (he is a skeptic, it seems.) I thought that the holographic principle and AdS/CFT dealt with that, and was enough for Hawking to give John ...
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Condensed matter application of AdS/CFT
I'm going to be teaching a course on gauge/gravity duality (aka AdS/CFT) in the winter.
The focus will be on applications in particle theory including $N=4$ SYM, the viscosity/entropy bound, and ...
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Mathematics of AdS/CFT
To date, what is the most mathematically precise formulation of the AdS/CFT correspondence, and what are the most robust tests of the conjecture?
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