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Analytic AC conductivities from holography

High Energy Physics - Theory 2022-04-13 v3 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

We find exact, analytic solutions of the holographic AC conductivity at arbitrary frequency ω\omega and temperature TT, in contrast to previous works where the AC conductivity was analytically obtained usually at small ω\omega and TT. These solutions enable us to study the analyticity properties of the current-current correlator G(ω)G(\omega) in detail. The first system we study is the AdS5_5 planar black hole with momentum dissipation, whose extremal limit has an AdS2_2 factor. Then we study AdS4_4 and AdS5_5 Einstein-dilaton systems whose special cases are maximal gauged supergravities. The solutions show how the poles move and how branch cuts emerge as the temperature varies. As a byproduct, we obtain an R-current correlator in N=4\mathcal{N}=4 super-Yang-Mills theory on a sphere at finite temperature in the large NN and strong coupling limit.

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@article{arxiv.2109.07481,
  title  = {Analytic AC conductivities from holography},
  author = {Jie Ren and Wenni Zheng},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2109.07481},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

10 pages, 3 figures, REVTeX 4.2. v2: extended version; v3: minor corrections, published version. A Mathematica notebook for verifying the solution of the perturbation equation is attached as an ancillary file. A video showing how the poles move and how a branch cut emerges is also attached

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