Holographic Brownian motion in 1 + 1 dimensions

DOI10.1016/J.NUCLPHYSB.2014.04.016zbMATH Open1323.81054arXiv1308.3352OpenAlexW2124061403MaRDI QIDQ748610FDOQ748610

D. Kharzeev

Publication date: 29 October 2015

Published in: Nuclear Physics B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We study the motion of a stochastic string in the background of a BTZ black hole. In the 1+1 dimensional boundary theory this corresponds to a very heavy external particle (e.g, a quark), interacting with the fields of a CFT at finite temperature, and describing Brownian motion. The equations of motion for a string in the BTZ background can be solved exactly. Thus we can use holographic techniques to obtain the Schwinger-Keldysh Green function for the boundary theory for the force acting on the quark. We write down the generalized Langevin equation describing the motion of the external particle and calculate the drag and the thermal mass shift. Interestingly we obtain dissipation even at zero temperature for this 1+1 system. Even so, this does not violate boost (Lorentz) invariance because the drag force on a constant velocity quark continues to be zero. Furthermore since the Green function is exact, it is possible to write down an effective membrane action, and thus a Langevin equation, located at a "stretched horizon" at an arbitrary finite distance from the horizon.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1308.3352

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Brownian motion (60J65) Green's functions for ordinary differential equations (34B27) Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Quantum field theory on curved space or space-time backgrounds (81T20) Thermal quantum field theory (81T28) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics (81T40) Black holes (83C57) Exactly and quasi-solvable systems arising in quantum theory (81U15)

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