Thermalization of the spectral function in strongly coupled two dimensional conformal field theories

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2013, Issue 4, 2013, Pages

  Balasubramanian, V ^a,b   Bernamonti, A ^c,d   Craps, B ^d   Keranen V ^e,f   Keski Vakkuri, E ^g,h   Muller B ⁱ   Thorlacius, L ^e,f   Vanhoof, J ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b ECOLE NORMALE SUPÉRIEURE   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^d INTERNATIONAL SOLVAY INSTITUTES   (Belgium)

^e STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^f UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

^g UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^h UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

ⁱ DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Gauge gravity correspondence; Holography and quark gluon plasmas

Indexed keywords

EID: 84876386205     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP04(2013)069     Document Type: Article

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