ADSCFT MUNICH · The gauge gravity duality and its applications to real world strongly coupled systems
FP7 — People (Marie Curie Actions)
- Duration
- 2011-01-01 → 2012-12-31
- EU contribution
- €155,461
- Participants
- 1
- Scheme
- MC-IEF
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Results in brief
The gauge gravity duality and its applications to real world strongly coupled systems
The Marie Curie project AdSCFT Munich as part of FP7-MC-IEF has now completed its planned two-year period with important new results on applying the AdS/CFT correspondence, a new development in theoretical physics originating from string theory, to systems of relevance in heavy-ion and condensed matter physics. The fellow Dr. Jonathan Shock has worked at the Max Planck Institute for Physics in Munich within the research group of Dr. Johanna Erdmenger. He has published four papers in the Journal of High Energy Physics (JHEP), the leading journal in this research area, on the subjects outlined in the formal proposal, thus achieving the proposed milestones. He has also spent time in many other research institutes and universities within the EU and in China, disseminating these results, gaining new expertise and bringing it back to Munich. He has also taken part in outreach programs both within the EU and outside and this has allowed him to get strong ties with teaching institutions around the world. These will continue to impact his career development for the foreseeable future. During the two years the fellow has also expanded his areas of interest thanks to the career advancement opportunities of the Marie Curie fellowship. This has resulted in him winning a faculty position as a lecturer in the department of Mathematics and Applied Mathematics at the University of Cape Town in South Africa. It is certainly in large part thanks to the Marie Curie fellowship that the fellow was awarded this prestigious position. The research undertaken has encompassed formal aspects of the AdS/CFT correspondence, as well as applications to heavy-ion physics (in particular early states close to thermalisation) and condensed matter physics (in particular superconductivity). The four published articles are outlined below: The open string membrane paradigm with external electromagnetic fields Keun-Young Kim, Jonathan Shock, Javier Tarrio - JHEP 06 (2011) 017 In this paper the fellow and collaborators were able to develop an entirely new paradigm for understanding regions of D-branes in the presence of electric fields which previously had not been understood. By developing an open string membrane paradigm the fellow was able to show that an effective horizon develops on a D-brane when large electric fields are present. Using this new membrane paradigm it is possible to find, in a very simple manner, transport properties of gauge theories when electric and magnetic fields are turned on. Such behaviour is extremely important now as this can be applied both to the heavy ion collision physics at the LHC as well as to lower dimensional condensed matter systems which are being studied in great detail via the holographic correspondence.
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Project objective
The fellow’s research area is high energy theoretical physics. Specifically, in using methods from string theory tounderstand some of the most complex, and least understood areas of elementary particle physics. Through aprofound observation into the link between theories of gravity, described by string theory, and the fundamentalforces of particle physics, we have access to tools which allow insight into some of the most complicated areas offundamental physics. Not only is this allowing us to answer questions about these forces which would previouslyhave been impossible, but it is also giving us a deeper understanding into the very nature of space and time. Inaddition to this, advances in the field over the last few years have meant that we are now able to use these samemethods from string theory to look at condensed matter phenomena, which can be studied in the laboratory butwhere an understanding of their underlying mechanisms is still lacking. In this proposal an outline is given of theways in which the fellow will be able to answer some of the remaining questions in this fascinating area. From theideas set out in this proposal a series of important results over the two year period of the fellowship can bedelivered.The areas of application which will be discussed in detail are:1) String theory methods for understanding thermodynamic and hydrodynamic properties of the strong force athigh temperature.2) String theory methods for understanding mesonic and baryonic physics in cold nuclear matter and in the hightemperature phase.3) String theory methods for understanding superconductivity and superfluidity.The interdisciplinary aspects of this proposal linking string theory, heavy ion physics, high energy experimentalphysics, lattice and condensed matter
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Participants
- MAX-PLANCK-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FORDERUNG DER WISSENSCHAFTEN EV · MUNCHENCoordinatorGermany
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