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Collisions with Black Holes and Deconfined Plasmas
Aaron J. Amsel, Donald Marolf, Amitabh Virmani
We use AdS/CFT to investigate i) high energy collisions with balls of deconfined plasma surrounded by a confining phase and ii) the rapid localized heating of a deconfined plasma.…
The Physical Process First Law for Bifurcate Killing Horizons
Aaron J. Amsel, Donald Marolf, Amitabh Virmani
The physical process version of the first law for black holes states that the passage of energy and angular momentum through the horizon results in a change in area $\fracκ{8 π} ΔA…
Reversing Renormalization-Group Flows with AdS/CFT
Donald Marolf, Simon F. Ross
For scalar fields in AdS with masses slightly above the Breitenlohner-Freedman bound, appropriate non-local boundary conditions can define a unitary theory. Such boundary condition…
Quantum geometry and gravitational entropy
Vijay Balasubramanian, Bartlomiej Czech, Donald Marolf +2
Most quantum states have wavefunctions that are widely spread over the accessible Hilbert space and hence do not have a good description in terms of a single classical geometry. In…
A global picture of quantum de Sitter space
Steven B. Giddings, Donald Marolf
Perturbative gravity about a de Sitter background motivates a global picture of quantum dynamics in `eternal de Sitter space,' the theory of states which are asymptotically de Sitt…