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In this paper a holographic description of eternal inflation is developed. We focus on the description of an open FRW universe that results from a tunneling event in which a false vacuum with positive vacuum energy decays to a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-04-07 Yasuhiro Sekino , Leonard Susskind

We examine the near collapse dynamics of a self-gravitating magnetized electron gas at finite temperature, taken as the source of a Bianchi-I spacetime described by the Kasner metric. The set of Einstein-Maxwell field equations reduces to a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-11-27 I. Delgado Gaspar , A. Perez Martinez , Roberto A. Sussman , A. Ulacia Rey

The recent study of holographic superconductors has shown the emergence of a Kasner universe behind the event horizon. This paper serves to add to the discussion by introducing two modifications to the holographic superconductor model: an…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-05-11 Lewis Sword , David Vegh

Charged black holes in anti-de Sitter space become unstable to forming charged scalar hair at low temperatures $T < T_\text{c}$. This phenomenon is a holographic realization of superconductivity. We look inside the horizon of these…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-01-20 Sean A. Hartnoll , Gary T. Horowitz , Jorrit Kruthoff , Jorge E. Santos

Holographic Renormalization Group (RG) flows, described by Einstein gravity coupled to matter fields, have been thoroughly explored in the context of vacuum states. In this work, we shift the focus to thermal states. Using the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-10-14 Elena Cáceres , Hare Krishna

We study shape-deformations of the entanglement entropy and the modular Hamiltonian for an arbitrary subregion and state (with a smooth dual geometry) in a holographic conformal field theory. More precisely, we study a double-deformation…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-07-04 Aitor Lewkowycz , Onkar Parrikar

We discuss two scenarios of emergent gravity. In one of them the quantum vacuum is considered as superplastic crystal, and the effective gravity describes the dynamical elastic deformations of this crystal. In the other one the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-06-16 G. E. Volovik

We study the thermal helicity, defined in arXiv:1211.3850, of a conformal field theory with anomalies in the context of AdS$_{2n+1}$/CFT$_{2n}$. To do so, we consider large charged rotating AdS black holes in the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-17 Tatsuo Azeyanagi , R. Loganayagam , Gim Seng Ng , Maria J. Rodriguez

We study the Fermi level structure of 2+1-dimensional strongly interacting electron systems in external magnetic field using the AdS/CFT correspondence. The gravity dual of a finite density fermion system is a Dirac field in the background…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-05-29 E. Gubankova , J. Brill , M. Cubrovic , K. Schalm , P. Schijven , J. Zaanen

We study cold fermionic atoms using the holographic principle. We note that current atomic experiments with massive fermions trapped in a harmonic potential in the unitarity limit behave as massless fermions thanks to the Thomas-Fermi…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-12-15 Sang-Jin Sin , Ismail Zahed

We examine the dynamics of a self--gravitating magnetized electron gas at finite temperature near the collapsing singularity of a Bianchi-I spacetime. Considering a general and appropriate and physically motivated initial conditions, we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-15 I. Delgado Gaspar , A. Perez Martinez , Roberto A. Sussman , A. Ulacia Rey

Considering a thermal state of the dual CFT with a uniform deformation by a scalar operator, we study a holographic renormalization group flow at nonzero temperature in the bulk described by the Einstein-scalar field theory with the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-09-15 Yong-Qiang Wang , Yan Song , Qian Xiang , Shao-Wen Wei , Tao Zhu , Yu-Xiao Liu

The holographic charged fluid with anomalous current in Einstein-Maxwell gravity has been generalized from the infinite boundary to the finite cutoff surface by using the gravity/fluid correspondence. After perturbing the boosted…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-07-01 Xiaojian Bai , Ya-Peng Hu , Bum-Hoon Lee , Yun-Long Zhang

Motivated by its field theory interpretation, we study gravitational collapse of a minimally coupled massless scalar field in Einstein gravity with a negative cosmological constant. After demonstrating the accuracy of the numerical…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-30 David Garfinkle , Leopoldo A. Pando Zayas , Dori Reichmann

In order to make progress towards more realistic models of holographic fermion physics, we use gauge/gravity duality to compute the dispersion relations for quasinormal modes and collective modes for the electron cloud background, i.e. the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-03-27 Ulf Gran , Marcus Tornsö , Tobias Zingg

We present a holomorphic framework in which gravity, gauge interactions, and their couplings to charges and currents emerge from a single geometric action on a four-complex-dimensional manifold. The Hermitian metric yields on the real slice…

General Physics · Physics 2025-11-21 John. W. Moffat , Ethan. J. Thompson

We begin an investigation of inhomogeneous structures in holographic superfluids. As a first example, we study domain wall like defects in the 3+1 dimensional Einstein-Maxwell-Higgs theory, which was developed as a dual model for a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-02-28 Ville Keranen , Esko Keski-Vakkuri , Sean Nowling , K. P. Yogendran

We study a three-dimensional holographic CFT under the influence of a background electric field on a spacetime containing two black hole horizons. The electric background is fixed such that there is potential difference between the two…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-05-28 William D. Biggs , Jorge E. Santos

We study the interior dynamics of a top-down holographic superconductor from M-theory. The condense of the charged scalar hair necessarily removes the inner Cauchy horizon and the spacetime ends at a spacelike singularity. Although there is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-08-26 Yu-Sen An , Li Li , Fu-Guo Yang , Run-Qiu Yang

Two of the most fundamental problems at the nexus of Einstein's classical General Relativity (GR) and Quantum Field Theory (QFT) are: (1) complete gravitational collapse, presumed in classical GR to lead to a Black Hole (BH) horizon and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-06-02 Emil Mottola