Holo Club: Holographic transport in anisotropic systems

Title: Holographic transport in anisotropic systems

Speaker: Claire Moran (Utrecht University)

Venue&Time: Blue Room & Zoom / 11:30

Abstract:

Understanding transport in strongly coupled quantum systems remains a
central challenge across high-energy physics, condensed matter, and
quantum many-body theory. Of particular interest is systems exhibiting
anisotropy, where the anisotropy leads to a much richer transport
structure, with new transport coefficients emerging. The bulk
viscosity becomes especially subtle in anisotropic media, where it can
couple nontrivially to directional degrees of freedom and underlying
microscopic structure.

In this talk, I will discuss a recently developed holographic method
for computing the bulk viscosity in such systems. This approach
circumvents technical obstacles present in existing treatments and
yields analytic expressions. I will discuss the general structure of
the method, and highlight some applications of it.

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