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THEORETICAL PHYSICS
SEMINAR
Monday, November 19, 2007
12:00 pm, CP
179
Dr. ANDY O'BANNON
METALLIC AdS/CFT
ABSTRACT
The AdS/CFT correspondence allows us to study transport properties of strongly-coupled quark-gluon plasmas. For example, transport coefficients such as shear viscosity can be computed via supergravity. I will describe an AdS/CFT calculation of a conductivity associated with flavor fields coupled to the strongly-coupled N=4 super-Yang-Mills theory. The result for the conductivity exhibits features expected in the classical model of metals, hence the name "Metallic AdS/CFT."
Everyone is welcome