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The first textbook on this important topic, for graduate students and researchers in particle and condensed matter physics.
Author : Martin Ammon
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 549 pages
File Size : 48,21 MB
Release : 2015-04-09
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1107010349
The first textbook on this important topic, for graduate students and researchers in particle and condensed matter physics.
Author : Fernández Moreno Fernández
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Page : 234 pages
File Size : 36,94 MB
Release : 2013
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Author : Jonas Probst
Publisher : Springer
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 16,16 MB
Release : 2018-06-28
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 331993967X
Many open questions in Theoretical Physics pertain to strongly interacting quantum systems such as the quark-gluon plasma (QGP) produced in heavy-ion collisions or the strange-metal phase observed in many high-temperature superconductors. These systems are notoriously difficult to study using traditional methods such as perturbation theory, but the gauge/gravity duality offers a successful alternative approach, which maps strongly interacting quantum gauge theories to computationally tractable, classical gravity theories. This book begins with a pedagogical introduction to how the duality can be used to extract transport properties of quantum systems from their gravity dual. It then presents new results on hydrodynamic transport in strongly interacting quantum fluids, providing strong evidence that the Haack-Yarom identity between second-order transport coefficients holds for all fluids with a classical gravity dual and may be a universal feature of all strongly coupled quantum fluids such as the QGP. Newly derived Kubo formulae, expressing transport coefficients in terms of quantum correlators, hold independently of the duality. Lastly, the book discusses new results on magnetic impurities in strongly correlated metals, including the first dual gravity description of an inter-impurity coupling, crucial for the quantum criticality underlying the strange-metal phase.
Author : Martin Ammon
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 549 pages
File Size : 35,77 MB
Release : 2015-04-09
Category : Science
ISBN : 1316239721
Gauge/gravity duality creates new links between quantum theory and gravity. It has led to new concepts in mathematics and physics, and provides new tools to solve problems in many areas of theoretical physics. This book is the first textbook on this important topic, enabling graduate students and researchers in string theory and particle, nuclear and condensed matter physics to get acquainted with the subject. Focusing on the fundamental aspects as well as on the applications, this textbook guides readers through a thorough explanation of the central concepts of gauge/gravity duality. For the AdS/CFT correspondence, it explains in detail how string theory provides the conjectured map. Generalisations to less symmetric cases of gauge/gravity duality and their applications are then presented, in particular to finite temperature and density, hydrodynamics, QCD-like theories, the quark-gluon plasma and condensed matter systems. The textbook features a large number of exercises, with solutions available online at www.cambridge.org/9781107010345.
Author : Abhinav Nellore
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Page : 192 pages
File Size : 20,18 MB
Release : 2010
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Author : Michael Dine
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 873 pages
File Size : 17,84 MB
Release : 2011-09-30
Category : Science
ISBN : 9814350524
The book is based on lectures given at the TASI summer school of 2010. It aims to provide advanced graduate students, postdoctorates and senior researchers with a survey of important topics in particle physics and string theory, with special emphasis on applications of methods from string theory and quantum gravity in condensed matter physics and QCD (especially heavy ion physics).
Author : Kevin Robert Leslie Whyte
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Page : pages
File Size : 46,88 MB
Release : 2013
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Author : Oded Mintakevich
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Page : 132 pages
File Size : 39,34 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Gauge fields (Physics)
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Author : Fábio Diales da Rocha
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Page : 288 pages
File Size : 18,34 MB
Release : 2010
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Author : Makoto Natsuume
Publisher : Springer
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 14,41 MB
Release : 2015-04-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 4431554416
This book describes applications of the AdS/CFT duality to the "real world." The AdS/CFT duality is an idea that originated from string theory and is a powerful tool for analyzing strongly-coupled gauge theories using classical gravitational theories. In recent years, it has been shown that one prediction of AdS/CFT is indeed close to the experimental result of the real quark–gluon plasma. Since then, the AdS/CFT duality has been applied to various fields of physics; examples are QCD, nuclear physics, condensed-matter physics, and nonequilibrium physics. The aim of this book is to provide background materials such as string theory, black holes, nuclear physics, condensed-matter physics, and nonequilibrium physics as well as key applications of the AdS/CFT duality in a single volume. The emphasis throughout the book is on a pedagogical and intuitive approach focusing on the underlying physical concepts. It also includes step-by-step computations for important results, which are useful for beginners. This book will be a valuable reference work for graduate students and researchers in particle physics, general relativity, nuclear physics, nonequilibrium physics, and condensed-matter physics.