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A hole-ographic spacetime
Vijay Balasubramanian, Borun D. Chowdhury, Bartlomiej Czech +2
We embed spherical Rindler space -- a geometry with a spherical hole in its center -- in asymptotically AdS spacetime and show that it carries a gravitational entropy proportional…
Transformation of stimulus correlations by the retina
K. D. Simmons, J. S. Prentice, G. Tkacik +5
Redundancies and correlations in the responses of sensory neurons seem to waste neural resources but can carry cues about structured stimuli and may help the brain to correct for r…
Inhomogeneous Thermalization in Strongly Coupled Field Theories
V. Balasubramanian, A. Bernamonti, J. de Boer +6
To describe theoretically the creation and evolution of the quark-gluon plasma, one typically employs three ingredients: a model for the initial state, non-hydrodynamic early time…
A strongly coupled zig-zag transition
Vijay Balasubramanian, Micha Berkooz, Simon F. Ross +1
The zig-zag symmetry transition is a phase transition in 1D quantum wires, in which a Wigner lattice of electrons transitions to two staggered lattices. Previous studies model this…
The entropy of a hole in spacetime
Vijay Balasubramanian, Bartlomiej Czech, Borun D. Chowdhury +1
We compute the gravitational entropy of 'spherical Rindler space', a time-dependent, spherically symmetric generalization of ordinary Rindler space, defined with reference to a fam…
The Sense of Place: Grid Cells in the Brain and the Transcendental Number e
Xue-Xin Wei, Jason Prentice, Vijay Balasubramanian
Grid cells in the brain respond when an animal occupies a periodic lattice of "grid fields" during spatial navigation. The grid scale varies along the dorso-ventral axis of the ent…