POSTPONED: HoloClub: ‘Holographic transport in anisotropic systems’

Title: Holographic transport in anisotropic systems

Speaker: Claire Moran (Utrecht University)

Venue&Time: Red Room / 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.