| Speaker: | Masaki Shigemori (Amsterdam) |
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| Title: | Brownian motion in AdS/CFT |
| Date (JST): | Mon, Nov 02, 2009, 13:15 - 14:45 |
| Place: | Seminar Room at IPMU Prefab. B |
| Related File: | 152.pdf |
| Abstract: |
The AdS/CFT correspondence is by now relatively well understood at the level of macrophysics, i.e. thermodynamics and hydrodynamics. But macrophysics is a approximate description of the underlying microphysics. Historically, a crucial step toward the microphysics of nature was Brownian motion. In this talk, I will study Brownian motion in the AdS/CFT setup. A Brownian particle on the boundary corresponds to a string stretching between the AdS boundary and the horizon in the bulk. We will see how the Langevin equation governing the boundary Brownian motion is related to the Hawking radiation on the string. We will also see how the bulk physics can be used to compute physical quantities on the boundary, and vice versa. |
