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Conformal quantum mechanics and holographic quench

High Energy Physics - Theory 2016-02-19 v2

Abstract

Recently, there has been much interest in holographic computations of two-point non-equilibrium Green functions from AdS-Vaidya backgrounds. In the strongly coupled quantum field theory on the boundary, the dual interpretation of the background is an equilibration process called a holographic quench. The two dimensional AdS-Vaidya spacetime is a special case, dual to conformal quantum mechanics. We study how the quench is incorporated into a Hamiltonian H+θ(t)ΔHH + \theta(t) \Delta H and into correlation functions. With the help of recent work on correlation functions in conformal quantum mechanics, we first rederive the known two point functions, and then compute non-equilibrium 3- and 4-point functions. We also compute the 3-point function Witten diagram in the two-dimensional AdS-Vaidya background, and find agreement with the conformal quantum mechanics result.

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@article{arxiv.1509.01092,
  title  = {Conformal quantum mechanics and holographic quench},
  author = {Jarkko Järvelä and Ville Keränen and Esko Keski-Vakkuri},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1509.01092},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

19 pages, 3 figures. v2: More motivation and one figure added, typos corrected

R2 v1 2026-06-22T10:48:24.329Z