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most citedExperimental and Theoretical Challenges in the Search for the Quark Gluon Plasma: The STAR Collaboration's Critical Assessment of the Evidence from RHIC Collisions

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hep-th2016★ 3 cited

Far-from-equilibrium energy flow and entanglement entropy

Eugenio Megias

The time evolution of the energy transport triggered in a strongly coupled system by a temperature gradient is holographically related to the evolution of an asymptotically AdS bla…

hep-th2016★ 12 cited

Yukawa couplings in F-theory as D-brane instanton effects

Andres Collinucci, Iñaki García-Etxebarria

In a weak coupling limit the neighborhood of Yukawa points in GUT F-theory models is described by a non-resolvable orientifold of the conifold. We explicitly show, fi…

hep-th2016★ 27 cited

Quantum Quenches in a Holographic Kondo Model

Johanna Erdmenger, Mario Flory, Max-Niklas Newrzella +2

We study non-equilibrium dynamics and quantum quenches in a recent gauge/gravity duality model for a strongly coupled system interacting with a magnetic impurity with spin.…

hep-th2016★ 21 cited

S-duality in orientifold SCFTs

Iñaki García-Etxebarria, Ben Heidenreich

We present a general solution to the problem of determining all S-dual descriptions for a specific (but very rich) class of SCFTs. These SCFTs are indexed by deco…

hep-th2016★ 25 cited

Two-point Functions in a Holographic Kondo Model

Johanna Erdmenger, Carlos Hoyos, Andy O'Bannon +3

We develop the formalism of holographic renormalization to compute two-point functions in a holographic Kondo model. The model describes a -dimensional impurity spin of a ga…

hep-th2016★ 17 cited

Ubiquity of non-geometry in heterotic compactifications

Iñaki García-Etxebarria, Dieter Lust, Stefano Massai +1

We study the effect of quantum corrections on heterotic compactifications on elliptic fibrations away from the stable degeneration limit, elaborating on a recent observation by Mal…

hep-th2016★ 9 cited

Aharonov-Bohm protection of black hole's baryon/skyrmion hair

Gia Dvali, Alexander Gußmann

The baryon/skyrmion correspondence implies that the baryon number is encoded into a topological surface integral. Under certain conditions that we clarify, this surface integral ca…

hep-th2016★ 11 cited

The Asymmetric CFT Landscape in D=4,6,8 with Extended Supersymmetry

Ralph Blumenhagen, Michael Fuchs, Erik Plauschinn

We study asymmetric simple-current extensions of Gepner models in dimensions with at least eight supercharges in the right-moving sector. The models obtained in an extens…

hep-th2016★ 15 cited

Conductivities from attractors

Johanna Erdmenger, Daniel Fernandez, Prieslei Goulart +1

In the context of applications of the AdS/CFT correspondence to condensed matter physics, we compute conductivities for field theory duals of dyonic planar black holes in 3+1-dimen…

hep-th2016★ 15 cited

Holographic Kondo and Fano Resonances

Johanna Erdmenger, Carlos Hoyos, Andy O'Bannon +3

We use holography to study a -dimensional Conformal Field Theory (CFT) coupled to an impurity. The CFT is an gauge theory at large , with strong gauge interaction…

hep-th2016★ 62 cited

A holographic perspective on phonons and pseudo-phonons

Andrea Amoretti, Daniel Arean, Riccardo Argurio +2

We analyze the concomitant spontaneous breaking of translation and conformal symmetries by introducing in a CFT a complex scalar operator that acquires a spatially dependent expect…

hep-th2016★ 31 cited

Higgs-otic Inflation and Moduli Stabilization

Sjoerd Bielleman, Luis E. Ibanez, Francisco G. Pedro +2

We study closed-string moduli stabilization in Higgs-otic inflation in Type IIB orientifold backgrounds with fluxes. In this setup large-field inflation is driven by the vacuum ene…

hep-th2016★ 33 cited

Exceptional theories

Iñaki García-Etxebarria, Diego Regalado

We present a new construction of four dimensional theories, given by M5 branes wrapping a in an M-theory U-fold background. The resulting setup generalizes the…

hep-th2016★ 14 cited

Supersymmetric Casimir Energy and Transformations

Frederic Brünner, Diego Regalado, Vyacheslav P. Spiridonov

We provide a recipe to extract the supersymmetric Casimir energy of theories defined on primary Hopf surfaces directly from the superconformal index. It involves an $\mathrm{SL(3,\…

hep-th2016★ 80 cited

Backreaction Issues in Axion Monodromy and Minkowski 4-forms

Irene Valenzuela

We clarify the differences between the usual Kaloper-Sorbo description of axion monodromy and the effective axionic potential in terms of Minkowski 4-forms derived in string compac…

hep-th2016★ 15 cited

Thermodynamics of anisotropic branes

Daniel Ávila, Daniel Fernández, Leonardo Patiño +1

We study the thermodynamics of flavor D7-branes embedded in an anisotropic black brane solution of type IIB supergravity. The flavor branes undergo a phase transition between a `Mi…

hep-th2016★ 49 cited

Higher-Spin Algebras, Holography and Flat Space

Charlotte Sleight, Massimo Taronna

In this article we study the algebra generated by the holographically reconstructed cubic couplings for the type A minimal bosonic higher-spin theory on AdS, which were rec…

hep-th2016

Anomalous transport in second order hydrodynamics

Eugenio Megias, Manuel Valle

We study the non-dissipative transport effects appearing at second order in the hydrodynamic expansion for a non-interacting gas of chiral fermions by using the partition function…

hep-th2016★ 8 cited

Partial SUSY Breaking for Asymmetric Gepner Models and Non-geometric Flux Vacua

Ralph Blumenhagen, Michael Fuchs, Erik Plauschinn

Using the method of simple current extensions, asymmetric Gepner models of Type IIB with N=1 space-time supersymmetry are constructed. The combinatorics of the massless vector fiel…

hep-th2016★ 21 cited

Strong Coupling and Classicalization

Gia Dvali

Classicalization is a phenomenon in which a theory prevents itself from entering into a strong-coupling regime, by redistributing the energy among many weakly-interacting soft quan…

hep-th2016★ 31 cited

Non-associativity in non-geometric string and M-theory backgrounds, the algebra of octonions, and missing momentum modes

Murat Gunaydin, Dieter Lust, Emanuel Malek

We propose a non-associative phase space algebra for M-theory backgrounds with locally non-geometric fluxes based on the non-associative algebra of octonions. Our proposal is based…

hep-th2016★ 9 cited

Shift-symmetries and gauge coupling functions in orientifolds and F-theory

Pierre Corvilain, Thomas W. Grimm, Diego Regalado

We investigate the field dependence of the gauge coupling functions of four-dimensional Type IIB orientifold and F-theory compactifications with space-time filling seven-branes. In…

hep-th2016★ 18 cited

Quantum duality under the theta-exact Seiberg-Witten map

Carmelo P. Martin, Josip Trampetic, Jiangyang You

We show that in the perturbative regime defined by the coupling constant, the theta-exact Seiberg-Witten map applied to noncommutative U(N) Yang-Mills --with or without Supersymmet…

hep-th2016★ 91 cited

New Relations for Einstein-Yang-Mills Amplitudes

Stephan Stieberger, Tomasz R. Taylor

We obtain new relations between Einstein-Yang-Mills (EYM) amplitudes involving N gauge bosons plus a single graviton and pure Yang-Mills amplitudes involving N gauge bosons plus on…