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Time dependent black holes and thermal equilibration

High Energy Physics - Theory 2010-02-03 v3 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

We study aspects of a recently proposed exact time dependent black hole solution of IIB string theory using the AdS/CFT correspondence. The dual field theory is a thermal system in which initially a vacuum density for a non-conserved operator is turned on. We can see that in agreement with general thermal field theory expectation the system equilibrates: the expectation value of the non-conserved operator goes to zero exponentially and the entropy increases. In the field theory the process can be described quantitatively in terms of a thermofield state and exact agreement with the gravity answers is found.

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@article{arxiv.0708.3691,
  title  = {Time dependent black holes and thermal equilibration},
  author = {Dongsu Bak and Michael Gutperle and Andreas Karch},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0708.3691},
  year   = {2010}
}

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17 pages, 2 figures, References and one comment added, one more comment added

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