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Probing emergent geometry through phase transitions in free vector and matrix models

Probing emergent geometry through phase transitions in free vector and matrix models


Title: Probing emergent geometry through phase transitions in free vector and matrix models
Author: Amado, Irene
Sundborg, Bo
Thorlacius, Larus   orcid.org/0000-0002-8180-9607
Wintergerst, Nico
Date: 2017-02
Language: English
Scope: 5
University/Institute: Háskóli Íslands
University of Iceland
School: Verkfræði- og náttúruvísindasvið (HÍ)
School of Engineering and Natural Sciences (UI)
Department: Raunvísindastofnun (HÍ)
Science Institute (UI)
Series: Journal of High Energy Physics;2017(2)
ISSN: 1029-8479 (eISSN)
1126-6708
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP02(2017)005
Subject: AdS-CFT correspondence; Black holes; String theory; Higher spin gravity; Svarthol (stjörnufræði); Strengjafræði; Þyngdarafl
URI: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11815/278

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Amado, I., et al. (2017). "Probing emergent geometry through phase transitions in free vector and matrix models." Journal of High Energy Physics 2017(2): 5. doi:10.1007/JHEP02(2017)005

Abstract:

Boundary correlation functions provide insight into the emergence of an effective geometry in higher spin gravity duals of O(N ) or U(N ) symmetric field theories. On a compact manifold, the singlet constraint leads to nontrivial dynamics at finite temperature and large N phase transitions even at vanishing ’t Hooft coupling. At low temperature, the leading behavior of boundary two-point functions is consistent with propagation through a bulk thermal anti de Sitter space. Above the phase transition, the two-point function shows significant departure from thermal AdS space and the emergence of localized black hole like objects in the bulk. In adjoint models, these objects appear at length scales of order of the AdS radius, consistent with a Hawking-Page transition, but in vector models they are parametrically larger than the AdS scale. In low dimensions, we find another crossover at large distances beyond which the correlation function again takes a thermal AdS form, albeit with a temperature dependent normalization factor.

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