Holographic Description Research Articles

Deep inelastic scattering from holographic spin-one hadrons

We study deep inelastic scattering structure functions from hadrons using different holographic dual models which describe the strongly coupled regime of gauge theories in the large $N$ limit. Particularly, we consider scalar and vector mesons obtained from holographic descriptions with fundamental degrees of freedom, corresponding to ${\cal {N}}=2$ supersymmetric and non-supersymmetric Yang-Mills theories. We explicitly obtain analytic expressions for the full set of eight structure functions, i.e., $F_1$, $F_2$, $g_1$, $g_2$, $b_1$, $b_2$, $b_3$, $b_4$, arising from the standard decomposition of the hadronic tensor of spin-one hadrons. We obtain the relations $2 F_1 = F_2$ and $2 b_1 = b_2$. In addition, we find $b_1 \sim {\cal {O}}(F_1)$ as suggested by Hoodbhoy, Jaffe and Manohar for vector mesons. Also, we find new relations among some of these structure functions.

Twofold hidden conformal symmetry of Kerr Bolt black holes

Previously we have shown that a four-dimensional Kerr—Bolt black hole in non-extremal and also in extremal cases could be described by a holographic two-dimensional (2D) conformal field theory (CFT) [Ghezelbash A M, Kamali V and Setare M R 2010 Phys. Rev. D 82 124051; Setare M R and Kamali V 2010 JHEP 10 074]. Motivated by recent work [Chen C M, Huang Y M, Sun J R, Wu M F and Zou S J 2010 Phys. Rev. D 82 066004], we show that there is another holographic description for these black holes. The first description is called the J-picture, whose construction is based on the black hole angular momentum. The new description is called the Q-picture, whose constructions originate from the nut charge of the black hole. Similar to the previous cases [Ghezelbash A M, Kamali V and Setare M R 2010 Phys. Rev. D 82 124051; Setare M R and Kamali V 2010 JHEP 10 074], we show that this new picture for a low frequency limit of the wave equation of a massless charged scalar field in the background of a Kerr—Bolt black hole can be written as the Casimir of SL(2, R) symmetry. Our result shows that the entropy of the black hole is reproduced by the Cardy formula. In addition, the absorption cross section is consistent with the finite temperature absorption cross section for a two-dimensional CFT.

The Gödel-Schrödinger spacetime and stringy chronology protection

We show that the null Melvin map applied to a rotational isometry of global anti-de Sitter space produces a spacetime with properties analogous to both the Godel and Schrodinger geometries. The isometry group of this Godel-Schrodinger spacetime is appropriate to provide a holographic dual for the same non-relativistic conformal theory as the ordinary Schrodinger geometry, but defined on a sphere. This spacetime also possesses closed timelike curves outside a certain critical radius. We show that a holographic preferred screen for an observer at the origin sits at an interior radius, suggesting that a holographic dual description would only require the chronologically consistent region. Additionally, giant graviton probe branes experience repulson-type instabilities in the acausal region, suggesting a condensation of branes will modify the pathological part of the geometry to remove the closed timelike curves.

Photon-to-pion transition form factor and pion distribution amplitude from holographic QCD

We try to understand the recently observed anomalous behavior of the photon-to-pion transition form factor in the holographic QCD approach. First the holographic description of the anomalous \gamma^*\gamma^*\pi^0 form factor is reviewed and applied to various models. It is illustrated that in describing the anomalous form factor, the holographic approach is asymptotically dual to the perturbative QCD (pQCD) framework, with the pion mode \pi(z)\sim z corresponding to the asymptotic pion distribution amplitude. This indicates some inconsistency in light-front holography, since \pi(z)\sim z would be dual to \varphi(x)\sim \sqrt{x(1-x)} there. After clarifying these subtleties, we employ the relation between the holographic and the perturbative expressions to study possible asymptotic violation of the transition form factor. It is found that if one require that the asymptotic form factor possess a pQCD-like expression, the pion mode can only be ultraviolet-enhanced by logarithmic factors. The minimally deformed pion mode will then be of the form \pi(z)\sim z\ln (z\Lambda)^{-1}. We suppose that this deformation may be due to the coupling of the pion with a nontrivial open string tachyon field, and then the parameter $\Lambda$ will be related to the quark condensate. Interestingly, this pion mode leads immediately to Radyushkin's logarithmic model, which fitted very well the experimental data in the large-Q^2 region. On the other side, the pQCD interpretation with a flat-like pion distribution amplitude, proposed by Radyushkin and Polyakov, fails to possess a holographic expression.

Beyond the unitarity bound in AdS/CFT(A)dS

In this work we expand on the holographic description of CFTs on de Sitter (dS) and anti-de Sitter (AdS) spacetimes and examine how violations of the unitarity bound in the boundary theory are recovered in the bulk physics. To this end we consider a Klein-Gordon field on AdS_(d+1) conformally compactified such that the boundary is (A)dS_d, and choose masses and boundary conditions such that the corresponding boundary operator violates the CFT unitarity bound. The setup in which the boundary is AdS_d exhibits a particularly interesting structure, since in this case the boundary itself has a boundary. The bulk theory turns out to crucially depend on the choice of boundary conditions on the boundary of the AdS_d slices. Our main result is that violations to the unitarity bound in CFTs on dS_d and AdS_d are reflected in the bulk through the presence of ghost excitations. In addition, analyzing the setup with AdS_d on the boundary allows us to draw conclusions on multi-layered AdS/CFT-type dualities.

Evolution of two-point functions from holography

We consider a thermalization process in a 2-dimensional CFT that has a holographic description in terms of the gravitational collapse of a thin shell of null dust. This model represents a sudden perturbation of the CFT vacuum that communicates a uniform energy density to the system. We study the evolution of two-point functions at spacelike separated points (t 1, l) and (t 2 , 0), and reproduce the generic pattern first derived from the analysis of quantum quenches to critical systems. A crucial characteristic of these setups is that the excitations generated by the initial perturbation presents non-trivial quantum correlations. As a consequence, for any t i < ∞ equilibration is only effective on finite regions whose size grows as a lightfront. The behavior on larger regions is greatly determined by the initial state, which for the quenches we consider and the holographic model has relevant differences. However in both cases for late times the dependence on the scale l of the two-point functions enters through the effective distance l − t 1 − t 2. We interpret the onset of this behavior as an equilibration time for occupation numbers in these 2-dimensional models.

Aspects of AdS/BCFT

We expand the results of arXiv:1105.5165, where a holographic description of a conformal field theory defined on a manifold with boundaries (so called BCFT) was proposed, based on AdS/CFT. We construct gravity duals of conformal field theories on strips, balls and also time-dependent boundaries. We show a holographic g-theorem in any dimension. As a special example, we can define a `boundary central charge' in three dimensional conformal field theories and our holographic g-theorem argues that it decreases under RG flows. We also computed holographic one-point functions and confirmed that their scaling property agrees with field theory calculations. Finally, we give an example of string theory embedding of this holography by inserting orientifold 8-planes in AdS(4)xCP(3).

Light Glueball Spectrum in Five Dimensional Black Hole with the Perturbed Geometric Function

The five dimensional black hole space-time with perturbed geometric function considered. We use the holographic description of the black hole to investigate the glueball spectra and the effective potential. In this model, glueballs are described by a massless scalar field in the five dimensional black hole with a dilaton background. For the first time we use modified geometric function and discuss the effective potential by using the Schrodinger like equation.

Entanglement Entropy of Black Holes.

The entanglement entropy is a fundamental quantity, which characterizes the correlations between sub-systems in a larger quantum-mechanical system. For two sub-systems separated by a surface the entanglement entropy is proportional to the area of the surface and depends on the UV cutoff, which regulates the short-distance correlations. The geometrical nature of entanglement-entropy calculation is particularly intriguing when applied to black holes when the entangling surface is the black-hole horizon. I review a variety of aspects of this calculation: the useful mathematical tools such as the geometry of spaces with conical singularities and the heat kernel method, the UV divergences in the entropy and their renormalization, the logarithmic terms in the entanglement entropy in four and six dimensions and their relation to the conformal anomalies. The focus in the review is on the systematic use of the conical singularity method. The relations to other known approaches such as ’t Hooft’s brick-wall model and the Euclidean path integral in the optical metric are discussed in detail. The puzzling behavior of the entanglement entropy due to fields, which non-minimally couple to gravity, is emphasized. The holographic description of the entanglement entropy of the blackhole horizon is illustrated on the two- and four-dimensional examples. Finally, I examine the possibility to interpret the Bekenstein-Hawking entropy entirely as the entanglement entropy.

Striped instability of a holographic Fermi-like liquid

We consider a holographic description of a system of strongly-coupled fermions in 2+1 dimensions based on a D7-brane probe in the background of D3-branes. The black hole embedding represents a Fermi-like liquid. We study the excitations of the Fermi liquid system. Above a critical density which depends on the temperature, the system becomes unstable towards an inhomogeneous modulated phase which is similar to a charge density and spin wave state. The essence of this instability can be effectively described by a Maxwell-axion theory with a background electric field. We also consider the fate of zero sound at non-zero temperature.

Double, double supertube bubble

We argue that there exists a new class of completely smooth 1/8-BPS, three-charge bound state configurations that depend upon arbitrary functions of two variables. These configurations are locally 1/2-BPS objects in that if they form an infinite flat sheet then they preserve 16 supersymmetries but even with arbitrary two-dimensional shape modes they still preserve 4 supersymmetries. They have three electric charges and can be thought of the result of two successive supertube transitions that involve adding two independent dipole moments and giving rise to the arbitrary two-dimensional shape modes. We further argue that in the D1-D5-P duality frame this construction will give rise to smooth, horizonless solutions, or microstate geometries. We expect these solutions to be extremely important in the semi-classical and holographic descriptions of black-hole entropy.

HOLOGRAPHIC DESCRIPTION OF A KERR–GÖDEL BLACK HOLE IN FIVE DIMENSIONS

In the present paper we study the holographic description of the five-dimensional Kerr–Gödel black holes. We find that if focusing on the near-horizon region, for the massless scalar scattering in the low-frequency limit, the radial equation could be rewritten as the SL (2, R)L × SL (2, R)R quadratic Casimir, suggesting the existence of dual two-dimensional description. We read the temperatures of the dual CFT from the conformal coordinates. We recover the macroscopic entropy from microscopic considerations by applying the Cardy formula for the putative dual CFT. We also show that the absorption cross-section of a near-region scalar field is matched to the universal behavior of the 2-point function of finite temperature CFT.

Holograms of conformal Chern-Simons gravity

We show that conformal Chern-Simons gravity in three dimensions has various holographic descriptions. They depend on the boundary conditions on the conformal equivalence class and the Weyl factor, even when the former is restricted to asymptotic Anti-deSitter behavior. For constant or fixed Weyl factor our results agree with a suitable scaling limit of topologically massive gravity results. For varying Weyl factor we find an enhancement of the asymptotic symmetry group, the details of which depend on certain choices. We focus on a particular example where an affine u(1) algebra related to holomorphic Weyl rescalings shifts one of the central charges by 1. The Weyl factor then behaves as a free chiral boson in the dual conformal field theory.

Strong coupling BCS superconductivity and holography

We attempt to give a holographic description of the microscopic theory of a BCS superconductor. Exploiting the analogy with chiral symmetry breaking in QCD we use the Sakai–Sugimoto model of two D8 branes in a D4 brane background with finite baryon number. In this case there is a new tachyonic instability which is plausibly the bulk analog of the Cooper pairing instability. We analyze the Yang–Mills approximation to the non-Abelian Dirac–Born–Infeld action. We give some exact solutions of the non-linear Yang–Mills equations in flat space and also give a stability analysis, showing that the instability disappears in the presence of an electric field. The holographic picture also suggests a dependence of T c on the number density which is different from the usual (weak coupling) BCS. The flat space solutions are then generalized to curved space numerically and also, in an approximate way, analytically. This configuration should then correspond to the ground state of the boundary superconducting (superfluid) ground state. We also give some preliminary results on Green functions computations in the Sakai–Sugimoto model without any chemical potential.

Twofold hidden conformal symmetries of rotating charged Gödel black holes

In this paper, we show that there are two different individual 2D conformal field theories (CFTs) holographically dual to the rotating charged Gödel black hole. First, we consider the J-picture descriptions. For the charged rotating black holes in the five-dimensional Gödel universe, the J-picture descriptions are associated with two angular momenta. Then, we explore the supplementary holographic description, the Q-picture, based on the electric charge of the black hole. We consider the wave equation of a massless charged scalar field in our interesting background and show in the ‘near-horizon region’ that the wave equation can be reproduced by the SL(2, R)L × SL(2, R)R Casimir quadratic operators. Moreover, we compute the microscopic entropy of the dual CFT by the Cardy formula and find a perfect match to the Bekenstein–Hawking entropy of Kerr charged Gödel spacetimes. The absorption cross section of a near-region scalar field also matches the microscopic absorption cross section of the dual CFT.

Holographic Description of Rotating Charged Black Holes in Extremal Limit

We show that extremal rotating charged black holes have a hidden conformal symmetry. In this regard, we consider the wave equation of a massless scalar field propagating in rotating charged spacetimes and find in the “near region”, the wave equation in extremal limit can be written in terms of SL(2,R) Casimir invariants. Moreover, we obtain the microscopic entropy of the rotating charged black holes and find the correlation function of a near-region scalar field matches to the microscopic greybody factor of the dual 2D CFT. Subject Index: 121, 122, 124, 129, 454

Emergent quantum criticality, Fermi surfaces, andAdS2

Gravity solutions dual to d-dimensional field theories at finite charge density have a near-horizon region which is AdS_2 x R^{d-1}. The scale invariance of the AdS_2 region implies that at low energies the dual field theory exhibits emergent quantum critical behavior controlled by a (0+1)-dimensional CFT. This interpretation sheds light on recently-discovered holographic descriptions of Fermi surfaces, allowing an analytic understanding of their low-energy excitations. For example, the scaling behavior near the Fermi surfaces is determined by conformal dimensions in the emergent IR CFT. In particular, when the operator is marginal in the IR CFT, the corresponding spectral function is precisely of the "Marginal Fermi Liquid" form, postulated to describe the optimally doped cuprates.

Holographic description of large N gauge theory

Based on the earlier work [S.-S. Lee, Nucl. Rev. B 832 (2010) 567], we derive a holographic dual for the D-dimensional U ( N ) lattice gauge theory from a first principle construction. The resulting theory is a lattice field theory of closed loops, dubbed as lattice loop field theory which is defined on a ( D + 1 ) -dimensional space. The lattice loop field theory is well defined non-perturbatively, and it becomes weakly coupled and local in the large N limit with a large ʼt Hooft coupling.

Fluid-Gravity Model for the Chiral Magnetic Effect

We consider the STU model as a gravity dual of a strongly coupled plasma with multiple anomalous U(1) currents. In the bulk we add additional background gauge fields to include the effects of external electric and magnetic fields on the plasma. Reducing the number of chemical potentials in the STU model to two and interpreting them as quark and chiral chemical potential, we obtain a holographic description of the chiral magnetic and chiral vortical effects (CME and CVE) in relativistic heavy-ion collisions. These effects formally appear as first-order transport coefficients in the electromagnetic current. We compute these coefficients from our model using fluid-gravity duality. We also find analogous effects in the axial-vector current. Finally, we briefly discuss a variant of our model, in which the CME/CVE is realized in the late-time dynamics of an expanding plasma.

Towards holographic walking from $ \mathcal{N} = 4 $ super Yang-Mills

We propose that a holographic description of ‘walking’ behavior, namely quasi-conformal dynamics relevant for technicolor models, can be obtained from relevant deformations of \( \mathcal{N} = 4 \) super Yang-Mills. We consider deformations which drive the theory close to the \( \mathcal{N} = 1 \) Leigh-Strassler fixed point, eventually deviating from it in the deep IR. We use the Pilch-Warner dual supergravity description of the flow between the \( \mathcal{N} = 4 \) and the \( \mathcal{N} = 1 \) fixed points to focus on observables that only require knowledge of the walking region. These include large anomalous dimensions of quark bilinear operators, which we study via probe D7-branes. We also make a first attempt at describing the theory beyond the walking region by introducing an infrared cut-off, in the spirit of hard-wall models. In this case we find a light, dilaton-like scalar state, but whether this mode persists in the exact theory remains an open question.