Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Theory
Scientific paper
2010-05-19
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Theory
LaTeX, 47 pages, 14 figures; Typos corrected and references added (v2); minor corrections, references added(v3)
Scientific paper
We present holographic descriptions of thermalization in conformal field theories using probe D-branes in AdS X S space-times. We find that the induced metrics on Dp-brane worldvolumes which are rotating in an internal sphere direction have horizons with characteristic Hawking temperatures even if there is no black hole in the bulk AdS. The AdS/CFT correspondence applied to such systems indeed reveals thermal properties such as Brownian motions and AC conductivities in the dual conformal field theories. We also use this framework to holographically analyze time-dependent systems undergoing a quantum quench, where parameters in quantum field theories, such as a mass or a coupling constant, are suddenly changed. We confirm that this leads to thermal behavior by demonstrating the formation of apparent horizons in the induced metric after a certain time.
Das Sumit R.
Nishioka Tatsuma
Takayanagi Tadashi
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