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A famous example of gauge/gravity duality is the result that the entropy density of strongly coupled ${\cal N}=4$ SYM in four dimensions for large N is exactly 3/4 of the Stefan-Boltzmann limit. In this work, I revisit the massless O(N)…
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Accurately evaluating finite-temperature properties of quantum many-body systems remains a central challenge. Many existing quantum approaches typically require thermal-state preparation at each target temperature, making low-temperature…
The behavior of the finite-temperature C-function, defined by Neto and Fradkin [Nucl. Phys. B {\bf 400}, 525 (1993)], is analyzed within a d -dimensional exactly solvable lattice model, recently proposed by Vojta [Phys. Rev. B {\bf 53}, 710…
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Nuclear response theory beyond the one-loop approximation is formulated for the case of finite temperature. For this purpose, the time blocking approximation to the time-dependent part of the in-medium nucleon-nucleon interaction amplitude…
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We investigate the thermodynamics of a pion gas within the O(N) model in the 1/N expansion. Using the auxiliary field technique, we compute the effective potential up to the next-to-leading order (NLO) and show that it can be renormalized…
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