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