Overview
- Provides an intuitive approach to highly technical materials as well as step-by-step computations of important results
- Is the first self-contained book with all background materials accessible to physicists learning elementary general relativity and field theory
- Covers key applications of AdS/CFT such as the viscosity of quark–gluon plasma, Wilson loops, second-order hydrodynamics, and holographic superconductors
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Physics (LNP, volume 903)
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About this book
This book describes applications of the AdS/CFT duality to the "real world." The AdS/CFT duality is an idea that originated from string theory and is a powerful tool for analyzing strongly-coupled gauge theories using classical gravitational theories. In recent years, it has been shown that one prediction of AdS/CFT is indeed close to the experimental result of the real quark–gluon plasma. Since then, the AdS/CFT duality has been applied to various fields of physics; examples are QCD, nuclear physics, condensed-matter physics, and nonequilibrium physics.
The aim of this book is to provide background materials such as string theory, black holes, nuclear physics, condensed-matter physics, and nonequilibrium physics as well as key applications of the AdS/CFT duality in a single volume. The emphasis throughout the book is on a pedagogical and intuitive approach focusing on the underlying physical concepts. It also includes step-by-step computations for important results, which are useful for beginners.
This book will be a valuable reference work for graduate students and researchers in particle physics, general relativity, nuclear physics, nonequilibrium physics, and condensed-matter physics.
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Book Title: AdS/CFT Duality User Guide
Authors: Makoto Natsuume
Series Title: Lecture Notes in Physics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-55441-7
Publisher: Springer Tokyo
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Japan 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-4-431-55440-0Published: 14 April 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-4-431-55441-7Published: 01 April 2015
Series ISSN: 0075-8450
Series E-ISSN: 1616-6361
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 294
Number of Illustrations: 64 b/w illustrations, 11 illustrations in colour
Topics: Quantum Field Theories, String Theory, Nuclear Physics, Heavy Ions, Hadrons, Quantum Gases and Condensates, Elementary Particles, Quantum Field Theory, Classical and Quantum Gravitation, Relativity Theory