119288285
Holographic Chiral Electric Separation Effect
We investigate the chiral electric separation effect, where an axial current is induced by an electric field in the presence of both vector and axial chemical potentials, in a strongly coupled plasma via the Sakai-Sugimoto model with an $U(1)_R\times U(1)_L$ symmetry. By introducing different chemical potentials in $U(1)_R$ and $U(1)_L$ sectors, we compute the axial direct current (DC) conductivity stemming from the chiral current and the normal DC conductivity. We find that the axial conductivity is approximately proportional to the product of the axial and vector chemical potentials for arbitrary magnitudes of the chemical potentials. We also evaluate the axial alternating current (AC) conductivity induced by a frequency-dependent electric field, where the oscillatory behavior with respect to the frequency is observed.
10513230
Holographic QCD with topologically charged domain-wall/membranes
We study the thermodynamical phase structures of holographic QCD with nontrivial topologically charged domain-wall/membranes which are originally related to the multiple θ-vacua in the large Nc limit. We realize the topologically charged membranes as the holographic D6-brane fluxes in the Sakai-Sugimoto model. The D6-brane fluxes couple to the probe D8- via Chern-Simon term, and act as the source for the baryonic current density of QCD. We find rich phase structures of the dual meson system by varying asymptotic separation of D8 and . Especially, there can be a thermodynamically favored and stable phase of finite baryonic current density. This provides the supporting evidence for the discovery of the topologically charged membranes found in the lattice QCD calculations. We also find a crossover phase with the limiting baryonic current density and temperature which suggest a Hagedorn-like phase transition of meson dissociation.
119167353
Chiral Hall effect and chiral electric waves
We investigate the vector and axial currents induced by external electromagnetic fields and chemical potentials in chiral systems at finite temperature. Similar to the normal Hall effect, we find that an axial Hall current is generated in the presence of the electromagnetic fields along with an axial chemical potential, which may be dubbed as the ”chiral Hall effect”(CHE). The CHE is related to the interactions of chiral fermions and exists with the a nonzero axial chemical potential. We argue that the CHE could lead to nontrivial charge distributions at different rapidity in asymmetric heavy ion collisions. Moreover, we study the chiral electric waves(CEW) led by the fluctuations of the vector and axial chemical potentials along with the chiral electric separation effect(CESE), where a density wave propagates along the applied electric field. Combining with the normal/chiral Hall effects, the fluctuations of chemical potentials thus result in Hall density waves. The Hall density waves may survive even at zero chemical potentials and become non-dissipative. We further study the transport coefficients including the Hall conductivities, damping times, wave velocities, and diffusion constants of CEW in a strongly coupled plasma via the AdS/CFT correspondence.
16753284
Non-relativistic holography and singular black hole
Abstract We provide a framework for non-relativistic holography so that a covariant action principle ensuring the Galilean symmetry for dual conformal field theory is given. This framework is based on the Bargmann lift of the Newton–Cartan gravity to the one-dimensional higher Einstein gravity, or reversely, the null-like Kaluza–Klein reduction. We reproduce the previous zero temperature results, and our framework provides a natural explanation about why the holography is co-dimension 2. We then construct the black hole solution dual to the thermal CFT, and find the horizon is curvature singular. However, we are able to derive the sensible thermodynamics for the dual non-relativistic CFT with correct thermodynamical relations. Besides, our construction admits a null Killing vector in the bulk such that the Galilean symmetry is preserved under the holographic RG flow. Finally, we evaluate the viscosity and find it zero if we neglect the back reaction of the singular horizon, otherwise, it could be non-zero.
55380857
Mimic the optical conductivity in disordered solids via gauge/gravity duality ✩
Abstract We study the optical conductivity in a ( 2 + 1 ) -dimensional non-relativistic field theory holographically dual to a ( 3 + 1 ) -dimensional charged Lifshitz black brane within the Einstein–Maxwell-dilaton theory. Surprisingly, we find that the optical AC conductivity satisfies the nontrivial (non-)power law scaling in the high frequency regime rather than approaching to a constant when the dynamical critical exponent z > 1 , which is qualitatively similar to those in various disordered solids in condensed matter systems. Besides, this (non-)power law scaling behavior shows some universality, which is robust against the temperatures. We argue that the peculiar scaling behavior of AC conductivity may stem from the couplings of the dilaton field with the gauge fields and also the logarithmic behavior near the boundary in the Lifshitz spacetime.
119264101
Novel features of the transport coefficients in Lifshitz black branes
We study the transport coefficients, including the conductivities and shear viscosity of the non-relativistic field theory dual to the Lifshitz black brane with multiple U(1) gauge fields by virtue of the gauge/gravity duality. Focusing on the case of double U(1) gauge fields, we systematically investigate the electric, thermal and thermoelectric conductivities for the dual non-relativistic field theory. In the large frequency regime, we find a nontrivial power law behavior in the electric AC conductivity when the dynamical critical exponent z>1 in (2+1)-dimensional field theory. The relations between this novel feature and the `symmetric hopping model' in condensed matter physics are discussed. In addition, we also show that the Kovtun-Starinets-Son bound for the shear viscosity to the entropy density is not violated by the additional U(1) gauge fields and dilaton in the Lifshitz black brane.
117659024
Hawking Radiation of Photons in a Vaidya–de Sitter Black Hole
Hawking evaporation of photons in a Vaidya–de Sitter black hole is investigated by using the method of generalized tortoise coordinate transformation. Both the location and the temperature of the event horizon depend on the time. It is shown that Hawking radiation of photons exists only for the complex Maxwell scalar φ0 in the advanced Eddington–Finkelstein coordinate system. This asymmetry of Hawking radiation for different components of Maxwell fields probably arises from the asymmetry of spacetime in the advanced Eddington–Finkelstein coordinate system. It is shown that the black body radiant spectrum of photons resembles that of Klein–Gordon particles.
119247463
Extremal Kerr/CFT correspondence of five-dimensional rotating (charged) black holes with squashed horizons
Abstract A new holographic duality named Kerr/CFT correspondence was recently proposed to derive the statistical entropy of four-dimensional extremal Kerr black holes via identifying the quantum states in the near-horizon region with those of two-dimensional conformal field theory living on the boundary. In this paper, we apply this method to investigate five-dimensional extremal Kerr and Cvetic–Youm black holes with squashed horizons in different coordinates and find that the near-horizon geometries are not affected by the squashing transformation. Our investigation shows that the microscopic entropies are in agreement with those given by Bekenstein–Hawking formula. In addition, we have also investigated thermodynamics of the general non-extremal Cvetic–Youm black holes with squashed horizons.
116903824
Four Quantum Conservation Laws for Black Hole Stationary Equilibrium Radiation Processes
The classical first law of thermodynamics for a Kerr–Newman black hole (KNBH)is generalized to a law in quantum form on the event horizon. Then four quantumconservation laws on the KNBH equilibrium radiation process are derived. TheBekenstein–Hawking relation S = A/4 is exactly established. It can be inferredthat the classical entropy of black hole arises from the quantum entropy of fieldquanta or quasiparticles inside the hole.
119033103
New formulation of the first law of black hole thermodynamics: a stringy analogy
Abstract We consider the first laws of thermodynamics for a pair of systems made up of the two horizons of a Kerr–Newman black hole. These two systems are constructed in such a way that we only demand their “horizon areas” to be the sum and difference of that of the outer and inner horizons of their prototype. Remarkably, these two copies bear a striking resemblance to the right- and left-movers in string theory and D-brane physics. Our reformulation of the first law of black hole thermodynamics can be thought of as an analogy of thermodynamics of effective string or D-brane models.
117070356
Maxwell-Boltzmann, Bose-Einstein, Fermi-Dirac statistical entropies in a D-dimensional stationary axisymmetry space-time
Statistical entropies of a general relativistic ideal gas obeying Maxwell-Boltzmann, Bose-Einstein and Fermi-Dirac statistics are calculated in a general axisymmetry space-time of arbitrary dimension. This general formation can be used to discuss the entropy of a quantum field not only in the flat space-time but also in a curved space-time. It can also be used to compare the entropies in different dimensional space-times. Analytical expressions for the thermodynamic potentials are presented, and their behaviors in the high or low temperature approximation are discussed. The entropy of a quantum field is shown to be proportional to the volume of optical space or that of the dragged optical space only in the high temperature approximation or in the zero mass case. In the case of a black hole, the entropy of a quantum field at the Hartle-Hawking temperature is proportional to the horizon "area" if and only if the horizon is located at the light velocity surface.