Holographic thermalization in noncommutative geometry

Inhomogeneous holographic thermalization

The sudden injection of energy in a strongly coupled conformal field theory and its subsequent thermalization can be holographically modeled by a shell falling into anti-de Sitter space and forming a black brane. For a homogeneous shell, Bhattacharyya and Minwalla were able to study this process analytically using a weak field approximation. Motivated by event-by-event fluctuations in heavy ion...

Entanglement tsunami: universal scaling in holographic thermalization.

We consider the time evolution of entanglement entropy after a global quench in a strongly coupled holographic system, whose subsequent equilibration is described in the gravity dual by the gravitational collapse of a thin shell of matter resulting in a black hole. In the limit of large regions of entanglement, the evolution of entanglement entropy is controlled by the geometry around and insid...

Reheating of the Universe as holographic thermalization

Article history: Received 10 February 2016 Accepted 9 June 2016 Available online 14 June 2016 Editor: M. Trodden Assuming gauge/gravity correspondence we study reheating of the Universe using its holographic dual. Inflaton decay and thermalisation of the decay products correspond to collapse of a spherical shell and formation of a blackhole in the dual anti-de Sitter (AdS) spacetime. The reheat...

Noncommutative geometry

Duality in Noncommutative Geometry

The structure of spacetime duality and discrete worldsheet symmetries of compactified string theory is examined within the framework of noncommutative geometry. The full noncommutative string spacetime is constructed using the Fröhlich-Gawȩdzki spectral triple which incorporates the vertex operator algebra of the string theory. The duality group appears naturally as a subgroup of the automorphi...