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Lifshitz quasinormal modes and relaxation from holography

High Energy Physics - Theory 2015-06-11 v1

Abstract

We obtain relaxation times for field theories with Lifshitz scaling and with holographic duals Einstein-Maxwell-Dilaton gravity theories. This is done by computing quasinormal modes of a bulk scalar field in the presence of Lifshitz black branes. We determine the relation between relaxation time and dynamical exponent z, for various values of boundary dimension d and operator scaling dimension. It is found that for d>z+1, at zero momenta, the modes are non-overdamped, whereas for d<=z+1 the system is always overdamped. For d=z+1 and zero momenta, we present analytical results.

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@article{arxiv.1503.07457,
  title  = {Lifshitz quasinormal modes and relaxation from holography},
  author = {Watse Sybesma and Stefan Vandoren},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1503.07457},
  year   = {2015}
}

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16 pages and 5 figures