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Recently, a class of gravitational backgrounds in 3+1 dimensions have been proposed as holographic duals to a Lifshitz theory describing critical phenomena in 2+1 dimensions with critical exponent $z\geq 1$. We numerically explore black…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-05-29 Gaetano Bertoldi , Benjamin A. Burrington , Amanda Peet

We use the radial null energy condition to construct a monotonic $a$-function for a certain type of non-relativistic holographic RG flows. We test our $a$-function in three different geometries that feature a Boomerang RG flow,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-02-07 Elena Cáceres , Rodrigo Castillo Vásquez , Karl Landsteiner , Ignacio Salazar Landea

In the context of the gauge/gravity duality, using the proposed candidate $c$-function, which is derived from the entanglement entropy of a strip-shaped region, we investigate the RG flow for $d+1$-dimensional quantum field theories with…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-09-20 Mostafa Ghasemi , Shahrokh Parvizi

Using the AdS/CFT correspondence, we study the Schwinger effect in strongly coupled theories with an anisotropic scaling symmetry in time and spatial direction. We consider Lifshitz and hyperscaling violation theories and use their gravity…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-04-21 Kazem Bitaghsir Fadafan , Fateme Saiedi

Lifshitz and hyperscaling violating geometries, which provide a holographic description of non-relativistic field theories, generically have a singularity in the infrared region of the geometry, where tidal forces for freely falling…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-17 Yang Lei , Simon F. Ross

We revisit the existence of monotonic quantities along renormalization group flows using only the Null Energy Condition and the Ryu-Takayanagi formula for the entanglement entropy of field theories with anti-de Sitter gravity duals. In…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-09-27 Evan Deddo , James T. Liu , Leopoldo A. Pando Zayas , Robert J. Saskowski

We construct an analytic solution for a one-parameter family of holographic superconductors in asymptotically Lifshitz spacetimes. We utilize this solution to explore various properties of the systems such as (1) the superfluid phase…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-03-28 Makoto Natsuume , Takashi Okamura

We investigate the holographic renormalization of the Einstein-Maxwell-dilaton theory which provides an asymptotic Lifshitz geometry dual to a Lifshitz field theory. In this case, the existence of a field combination with zero scaling…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-03-12 Chanyong Park

We give a definition of asymptotically locally Lifshitz spacetimes, with boundary data appropriate for a non-relativistic theory on the boundary. Solutions satisfying these boundary conditions are constructed in an asymptotic expansion. We…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-28 Simon F. Ross

We use gauge/gravity duality to explore strongly coupled superconductors with dynamical exponent $z=2$. In the probe limit we numerically establish background solutions for the matter fields and plot the condensate versus the dimensionless…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-11-02 Yanyan Bu

Using the AdS/CFT duality, we study the expectation value of stress tensor in $2+1$-dimensional quantum critical theories with a general dynamical scaling $z$, and explore various constrains on negative energy density for strongly coupled…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-10-12 Da-Shin Lee , Chen-Pin Yeh

In the probe limit, we numerically build a holographic $p$-wave superfluid model in the four-dimensional Lifshitz black hole coupled to a Maxwell-complex vector field. We observe the rich phase structure and find that the Lifshitz dynamical…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-12-30 Ya-Bo Wu , Jun-Wang Lu , Cheng-Yuan Zhang , Nan Zhang , Xue Zhang , Zhuo-Qun Yang , Si-Yu Wu

We study generic types of holographic matter residing in Lifshitz invariant defect field theory as modeled by adding probe D-branes in the bulk black hole spacetime characterized by dynamical exponent $z$ and with hyperscaling violation…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-03-08 Niko Jokela , Jarkko Järvelä , Alfonso V. Ramallo

By starting from a Perelman entropy functional and considering the Ricci-DeTurck flow equations we analyze the behaviour of Einstein-Hilbert and Einstein-Proca theories with Lifshitz geometry as functions of a flow parameter. In the former…

By using the notion of fractional derivatives, we introduce a class of massless Lifshitz scalar field theory in (1+1)-dimension with an arbitrary anisotropy index $z$. The Lifshitz scale invariant ground state of the theory is constructed…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-07-17 Jaydeep Kumar Basak , Adrita Chakraborty , Chong-Sun Chu , Dimitrios Giataganas , Himanshu Parihar

We provide the first example of local quantum energy conditions in quantum field theories that are not Lorentz invariant. We focus on field theories in two dimensions with infinite-dimensional symmetries, like the ones governed by the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-09-25 Daniel Grumiller , Pulastya Parekh , Max Riegler

We propose a candidate $c$-function in arbitrary dimensional quantum field theories with broken Lorentz and rotational symmetry. For holographic theories we derive the necessary and sufficient conditions on the geometric background for…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-02-12 Chong-Sun Chu , Dimitrios Giataganas

We use Gauge/Gravity duality to write down an effective low energy holographic theory of charge density waves. We consider a simple gravity model which breaks translations spontaneously in the dual field theory in a homogeneous manner,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-05-02 Andrea Amoretti , Daniel Areán , Blaise Goutéraux , Daniele Musso

We study the holographic dark energy on the subject of Ho$\check{r}$ava-Lifshitz gravity with a time dependent gravitational constant (G(t)), in the non-flat space-time. We obtain the differential equation that specify the evolution of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-01-20 Kh. Saaidi , A. Aghamohammadi , M. R. Setare

We have extended our previous work [1] on rotating holographic superfluids to include Lifshitz scaling. Presence of this scaling breaks relativistic invariance of the boundary superfluid system and indicates the existence of a Lifshitz…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-04-14 Ankur Srivastav , Sunandan Gangopadhyay