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Open EFT for Interacting Fermions from Holography

High Energy Physics - Theory 2025-03-07 v2

Abstract

We initiate the study of an open EFT for finite-temperature holographic systems with interacting fermions. In particular, we do this for Yukawa interactions in the bulk using the real-time formalism (grSK geometry). From the bulk perspective, this study corresponds to Yukawa scattering against a black hole, incorporating the effects of Hawking radiation. We derive an EFT in the exterior of the black hole and thus develop a Witten diagrammatic understanding of the scattering processes. This allows the explicit evaluation of boundary Schwinger-Keldysh (SK) correlators to arbitrary order, at tree-level in the bulk. Here we present explicitly the SK generating functional up to four-point functions. Finally, we represent the correlators in a column-vector representation that manifests microscopic unitarity and thermality, with all the statistical factors neatly folded in.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2403.10604,
  title  = {Open EFT for Interacting Fermions from Holography},
  author = {Godwin Martin and Shivam K. Sharma},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2403.10604},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

22 pages + appendices, 8 figures, v2: fixed typos, minor changes

R2 v1 2026-06-28T15:22:16.824Z