Holographic thermal field theory on curved spacetimes

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/31/6/063001MaRDI QIDQ5413611zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Donald Marolf, Mukund Rangamani, Toby Wiseman

Publication date 30 April 2014

Published in Classical and Quantum Gravity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1312.0612, http://dro.dur.ac.uk/12067/1/12067.pdf

zbMATH Keywords

AdS/CFT correspondenceevaporationgauge/string dualitygravitational aspects of string theoryholographic thermal field theoryquantum aspects of black holesthermodynamics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum field theory on curved space or space-time backgrounds (81T20) Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics (81T40) Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to relativity and gravitational theory (83-02) Methods of quantum field theory in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C47) Black holes (83C57) Relativistic gravitational theories other than Einstein's, including asymmetric field theories (83D05) String and superstring theories in gravitational theory (83E30)

Abstract: The AdS/CFT correspondence relates certain strongly coupled CFTs with large effective central charge $c_{e}xteff$ to semi-classical gravitational theories with AdS asymptotics. We describe recent progress in understanding gravity duals for CFTs on non-trivial spacetimes at finite temperature, both in and out of equilibrium. Such gravity methods provide powerful new tools to access the physics of these strongly coupled theories, which often differs qualitatively from that found at weak coupling. Our discussion begins with basic aspects of AdS/CFT and progresses through thermal CFTs on the Einstein Static Universe and on periodically identified Minkowski spacetime. In the latter context we focus on states describing so-called plasma balls, which become stable at large $c_{e}xteff$. We then proceed to out-of-equilibrium situations associated with dynamical bulk black holes. In particular, the non-compact nature of these bulk black holes allows stationary solutions with non-Killing horizons that describe time-independent flows of CFT plasma. As final a topic we consider CFTs on black hole spacetimes. This discussion provides insight into how the CFT transports heat between general heat sources and sinks of finite size. In certain phases the coupling to small sources can be strongly suppressed, resulting in negligible heat transport despite the presence of a deconfined plasma with sizeable thermal conductivity. We also present a new result, explaining how this so-called droplet behaviour is related to confinement via a change of conformal frame.

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