Conductivity and quasinormal modes in holographic theories

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2012, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Stephanov, M A ^a   Yin, Y ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

AdS CFT Correspondence; Holography and quark gluon plasmas; QCD; Sum Rules

Indexed keywords

EID: 84857864103     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP02(2012)017     Document Type: Article

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