AdS/CFT Duality User Guide [electronic resource] / by Makoto Natsuume.
Material type: TextSeries: Lecture Notes in Physics ; 903Publisher: Tokyo : Springer Japan : Imprint: Springer, 2015Edition: 1st ed. 2015Description: XI, 294 p. 75 illus., 11 illus. in color. online resourceContent type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9784431554417Subject(s): Quantum field theory | String theory | Nuclear physics | Heavy ions | Phase transformations (Statistical physics) | Condensed materials | Elementary particles (Physics) | Gravitation | Quantum Field Theories, String Theory | Nuclear Physics, Heavy Ions, Hadrons | Quantum Gases and Condensates | Elementary Particles, Quantum Field Theory | Classical and Quantum Gravitation, Relativity TheoryAdditional physical formats: Printed edition:: No title; Printed edition:: No titleDDC classification: 530.14 LOC classification: QC174.45-174.52Online resources: Click here to access onlineCurrent library | Home library | Call number | Materials specified | URL | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Introduction -- General relativity and black holes -- Black holes and thermodynamics -- Strong interaction and gauge theories -- The road to AdS/CFT -- The AdS spacetime -- AdS/CFT - equilibrium -- AdS/CFT - adding probes -- Basics of nonequilibrium physics -- AdS/CFT - non-equilibrium -- Other AdS spacetimes -- Applications to quark-gluon plasma -- Basics of phase transition -- AdS/CFT - phase transition.
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. .
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