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Thermalization of the spectral function in strongly coupled two dimensional conformal field theories

High Energy Physics - Theory 2014-02-04 v2

Abstract

Using Wigner transforms of Green functions, we discuss non-equilibrium generalizations of spectral functions and occupation numbers. We develop methods for computing time-dependent spectral functions in conformal field theories holographically dual to thin-shell AdS-Vaidya spacetimes.

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@article{arxiv.1212.6066,
  title  = {Thermalization of the spectral function in strongly coupled two dimensional conformal field theories},
  author = {V. Balasubramanian and A. Bernamonti and B. Craps and V. Keränen and E. Keski-Vakkuri and B. Müller and L. Thorlacius and J. Vanhoof},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1212.6066},
  year   = {2014}
}

Comments

53 pages, 9 figures, v2: references added, a few typos corrected