Applying AdS/CFT to many body systems

In this thesis, we model a many body system by a conformal field theory, and calculate the correlation function of a scalar operator in this theory using the AdS/CFT correspondence. We describe numerical techniques for calculating the retarded Green function of the operator. The results suggest that further improvement in the robustness of the codes is needed.

Department dc:contributor.department

Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Physics.

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Year dc:date.issued

2010

Author dc:creator

• Lin, Ying-Hsuan, S.B. Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Hong Liu.

• Physics.

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• http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582

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eng

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http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/61259

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oai:dspace.mit.edu:1721.1/61259