Exactly stable collective oscillations in conformal field theory

Any conformal field theory (CFT) on a sphere supports completely undamped collective oscillations. We discuss the implications of this fact for studies of thermalization using AdS/CFT. Analogous oscillations occur in Galilean CFT, and they could be observed in experiments on ultracold fermions.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Freivogel, Benjamin W. (Contributor), McGreevy, John (Contributor), Suh, Sunok Josephine (Contributor)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Center for Theoretical Physics (Contributor), Wen, Xiao-Gang (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Physical Society, 2012-09-17T13:43:48Z.
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