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most citedEntropy production, viscosity bounds and bumpy black holes

100 citations · 404 across the 12 of their papers we have counts for

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12 papers

hep-th2020★ 36 cited

Chaos and pole skipping in CFT

David M. Ramirez

Recent work has suggested an intriguing relation between quantum chaos and energy density correlations, known as pole skipping. We investigate this relationship in two dimensional…

hep-th2020★ 5 cited

BMS Symmetry via AdS/CFT

David A. Lowe, David M. Ramirez

With a view to understanding extended-BMS symmetries in the framework of the correspondence, asymptotically AdS geometries are constructed with null impulsive shockwa…

hep-th2018

Spinning constraints on chaotic large CFTs

Chi-Ming Chang, David M. Ramirez, Mukund Rangamani

We study out-of-time ordered four-point functions in two dimensional conformal field theories by suitably analytically continuing the Euclidean correlator. For large central charge…

hep-th2017★ 14 cited

Schwinger-Keldysh superspace in quantum mechanics

Michael Geracie, Felix M. Haehl, R. Loganayagam +3

We examine, in a quantum mechanical setting, the Hilbert space representation of the BRST symmetry associated with Schwinger-Keldysh path integrals. This structure had been postula…

hep-th2017★ 8 cited

Shear hydrodynamics, momentum relaxation, and the KSS bound

Tudor Ciobanu, David M. Ramirez

In this paper we investigate the behavior of the shear hydrodynamic response functions in a simple holographic model exhibiting momentum relaxation. We compute several stress tenso…

hep-th2016★ 73 cited

Closure of the Operator Product Expansion in the Non-Unitary Bootstrap

Ilya Esterlis, A. Liam Fitzpatrick, David Ramirez

We use the numerical conformal bootstrap in two dimensions to search for finite, closed sub-algebras of the operator product expansion (OPE), without assuming unitarity. We find th…

hep-th2016★ 100 cited

Entropy production, viscosity bounds and bumpy black holes

Sean A. Hartnoll, David M. Ramirez, Jorge E. Santos

The ratio of shear viscosity to entropy density, , is computed in various holographic geometries that break translation invariance (but are isotropic). The shear viscosity doe…

hep-th2015★ 16 cited

Thermal conductivity at a disordered quantum critical point

Sean A. Hartnoll, David M. Ramirez, Jorge E. Santos

Strongly disordered and strongly interacting quantum critical points are difficult to access with conventional field theoretic methods. They are, however, both experimentally impor…

hep-th2015★ 41 cited

Emergent scale invariance of disordered horizons

Sean A. Hartnoll, David M. Ramirez, Jorge E. Santos

We construct planar black hole solutions in AdS_3 and AdS_4 in which the boundary CFT is perturbed by marginally relevant quenched disorder. We show that the entropy density of the…

hep-th2013★ 2 cited

Clumping and quantum order: Quantum gravitational dynamics of NUT charge

Sean A. Hartnoll, David M. Ramirez

Gravitational instantons with NUT charge are magnetic monopoles upon dimensional reduction. We determine whether NUT charge can proliferate via the Polyakov mechanism and partially…

cond-mat.str-el2013★ 50 cited

Quantum critical metals in

R. Mahajan, D. M. Ramirez, S. Kachru +1

We study the problem of disorder-free metals near a continuous Ising nematic quantum critical point in dimensions. We begin with perturbation theory in the `Yukawa' couplin…

hep-th2012★ 59 cited

The Pauli exclusion principle at strong coupling: Holographic matter and momentum space

Richard J. Anantua, Sean A. Hartnoll, Victoria L. Martin +1

For free fermions at finite density, the Pauli exclusion principle is responsible for the existence of a Fermi surface and the consequent presence of low energy spectral weight ove…