{ "id": "1212.6066", "version": "v2", "published": "2012-12-25T17:22:01.000Z", "updated": "2013-01-31T13:39:24.000Z", "title": "Thermalization of the spectral function in strongly coupled two dimensional conformal field theories", "authors": [ "V. Balasubramanian", "A. Bernamonti", "B. Craps", "V. Keränen", "E. Keski-Vakkuri", "B. Müller", "L. Thorlacius", "J. Vanhoof" ], "comment": "53 pages, 9 figures, v2: references added, a few typos corrected", "journal": "JHEP 1304 (2013) 069", "doi": "10.1007/JHEP04(2013)069", "categories": [ "hep-th" ], "abstract": "Using Wigner transforms of Green functions, we discuss non-equilibrium generalizations of spectral functions and occupation numbers. We develop methods for computing time-dependent spectral functions in conformal field theories holographically dual to thin-shell AdS-Vaidya spacetimes.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v2", "updated": "2013-01-31T13:39:24.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "keywords": [ "dimensional conformal field theories", "thermalization", "conformal field theories holographically dual", "computing time-dependent spectral functions" ], "tags": [ "journal article" ], "publication": { "publisher": "Springer", "journal": "Journal of High Energy Physics", "year": 2013, "month": "Apr", "volume": 2013, "pages": 69 }, "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 53, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable", "inspire": 1208756, "adsabs": "2013JHEP...04..069B" } } }