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We study the dynamics of a strongly-coupled quantum field theory in a cosmological spacetime using the holographic AdS/CFT correspondence. Specifically we consider a confining gauge theory in an expanding FRW universe and track the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-09-30 Mukund Rangamani , Moshe Rozali , Mark Van Raamsdonk

We begin by reexamining the holographic reconstruction of scalar fields in four-dimensional anti-de Sitter spacetime, adopting a purely Lorentzian signature derivation, reproducing earlier results of HKLL and generalizing to arbitrary…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-11-05 David A. Lowe , Yiru Wang , Juanyi Yang

We provide a description of phase transitions at finite temperature in strongly coupled field theories using holography. For this purpose, we introduce a general class of gravity duals to superconducting theories that exhibit various types…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-04-06 Sebastian Franco , Antonio M. Garcia-Garcia , Diego Rodriguez-Gomez

In this paper and its sequel, we study non-equilibrium dynamics in driven 1+1D conformal field theories (CFTs) with periodic, quasi-periodic, and random driving. We study a soluble family of drives in which the Hamiltonian only involves the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-04-19 Xueda Wen , Ruihua Fan , Ashvin Vishwanath , Yingfei Gu

We present a framework for generative machine learning that leverages the holographic principle of quantum gravity, or to be more precise its manifestation as the anti-de Sitter/conformal field theory (AdS/CFT) correspondence, with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Ehsan Mirafzali , Sanjit Shashi , Sanya Murdeshwar , Edgar Shaghoulian , Daniele Venturi , Razvan Marinescu

We investigate the effect on cosmological evolution of a strongly coupled quantum field that undergoes renormalization group flow from a UV CFT to an IR CFT. The field theory is defined by perturbation of a holographic CFT by a relevant…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-08-12 Mark Van Raamsdonk , Rana Zibakhsh

We introduce and study generalized holographic superconductors with higher derivative couplings between the field strength tensor and a complex scalar field, in four dimensional AdS black hole backgrounds. We study this theory in the probe…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-19 Anshuman Dey , Subhash Mahapatra , Tapobrata Sarkar

The thermalisation of a strongly-coupled plasma is studied through the AdS/CFT correspondence. The system starts behaving as in viscous hydrodynamics shortly after the end of the perturbation. Local and nonlocal probes are used to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-12-12 Floriana Giannuzzi

This work addresses the response of a holographic conformal field theory to a homogeneous gravitational periodic driving. The dual geometry is the AdS-soliton, which models a strongly coupled quantum system in a gapped phase, on a compact…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-06-26 Anxo Biasi , Javier Mas , Alexandre Serantes

Among various applications of the AdS/CFT correspondence in condensed matter physics of particular importance is the realization of the phase transition between the normal and superconducting phase in a holographic QFT. After seminal papers…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-03-19 Jovan Potrebić , Dragoljub Gočanin

In this sequel (to [Phys. Rev. Res. 3, 023044(2021)], arXiv:2006.10072), we study randomly driven $(1+1)$ dimensional conformal field theories (CFTs), a family of quantum many-body systems with soluble non-equilibrium quantum dynamics. The…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-11-01 Xueda Wen , Yingfei Gu , Ashvin Vishwanath , Ruihua Fan

Driven mesoscopic system is a topic of great recent interest. The temporal evolution of the fluxes(particle and energy) are studied in a system of a driven single level quantum dot. At a very low reservoir temperature $T\rightarrow 0$ and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-01-29 Debashree Chowdhury

We will explore the dynamical property of non-equilibrium phenomena induced by two-dimensional holographic conformal field theory (2d holographic CFT) Hamiltonian on the curved spacetime by studying the time dependence of the entanglement…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-12-31 Chen Bai , Akihiro Miyata , Masahiro Nozaki

For two-dimensional conformal field theories driven by evolving background space-time metrics in a closed universe, we present an operator formulation as a driven inhomogeneous CFT. The Hamiltonian of this theory is given by a background…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-10-27 Johanna Erdmenger , Jani Kastikainen , Tim Schuhmann

Negative lambda gravitational effective field theories dual to holographic CFTs have potentially realistic cosmological solutions. Generic cosmological solutions of these effective field theories have scalar field evolution that can lead to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-06-06 Mark Van Raamsdonk , Chris Waddell

The AdS/CFT correspondence conjectures a duality between quantum gravity theories in anti-de Sitter (AdS) spacetime and conformal field theories (CFTs) on the boundary. One intriguing aspect of this correspondence is that it offers a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-07 Zuo Wang , Liang He

Using a holographic model, we study quantum field theories with a layer of one CFT surrounded by another CFT, on either a periodic or an infinite direction. We study the vacuum energy density in each CFT as a function of the central…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-09-01 Alex May , Petar Simidzija , Mark Van Raamsdonk

We construct a dyon solution for a Yang-Mills-Higgs theory in a 4 dimensional Schwarzschild-anti-de Sitter black hole background with temperature T. We then apply the AdS/CFT correspondence to describe the strong coupling regime of a 2+1…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-18 A. R. Lugo , E. F. Moreno , F. A. Schaposnik

We consider a system of two massive, mutually interacting probe real scalar fields, in zero temperature holographic backgrounds. The system does not have any continuous symmetry. For a suitable range of the interaction parameters adhering…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-05 Pankaj Chaturvedi , Pallab Basu

In this paper we study the time evolution of a class of two-level systems driven by periodic fields in terms of new convergent perturbative expansions for the associated propagator U(t). The main virtue of these expansions is that they do…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 J. C. A. Barata , D. A. Cortez