Studying strongly coupled systems with gauge/gravity duality

by Johanna Erdmenger

Tuesday 22 Feb 2011, 14:00 → 15:00 Europe/Zurich

TH Theory Conference Room (CERN)

Gauge/gravity duality has developed into a successful tool for describing strongly coupled systems. This applies in particular to low-energy QCD and to the quark-gluon plasma, but also beyond, uncovering new universal behaviour. In the talk I will illustrate recent progress with three examples: 1) Flavour superfluids and new phase transitions 2) Temperature-dependent contributions to the shear viscosity/entropy ratio in anisotropic systems 3) Time dependence and thermalization: Calculation of two-point functions