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hep-th2026

Mass and Force Relations for Extremal E2MD Black Holes

Sera Cremonini, Mirjam Cvetič, Christopher N. Pope +1

We study static extremal black holes in Einstein gravity coupled to a dilaton and two Maxwell fields with independent dilaton couplings and . When in four dimension…

hep-th2026

Holographic Charged Transport with Higher Derivatives

Alex Buchel, Sera Cremonini, Mohammad Moezzi +1

We compute the first-order hydrodynamic transport coefficients (shear viscosity , bulk viscosity , and charge conductivity ) for a broad class of strongly coupled, four-di…

hep-th2025

Quantum Corrections to from JT Gravity

Sera Cremonini, Li Li, Xiao-Long Liu +1

We revisit the computation of the shear viscosity to entropy ratio at finite chemical potential in a holographic model that takes into account the quantum fluctuations in the…

hep-th2024

Mass and Force Relations for Extremal EMDA Black Holes

Sera Cremonini, Mirjam Cvetic, Christopher N Pope +1

We investigate various properties of extremal dyonic static black holes in Einstein-Maxwell-Dilaton-Axion theory. We obtain a simple first-order ordinary differential equation for…

hep-th2024★ 1 cited

Causality bounds from charged shockwaves in 5d

Sera Cremonini, Brian McPeak, Mohammad Moezzi +1

Effective field theories are constrained by the requirement that their constituents never move superluminally on non-trivial backgrounds. In this paper, we study time delays experi…

hep-th2023★ 1 cited

Electric shocks: bounding Einstein-Maxwell theory with time delays on boosted RN backgrounds

Sera Cremonini, Brian McPeak, Yuezhang Tang

The requirement that particles propagate causally on non-trivial backgrounds implies interesting constraints on higher-derivative operators. This work is part of a systematic study…

hep-th2023

Holographic transport beyond the supergravity approximation

Alex Buchel, Sera Cremonini, Laura Early

We set up a unified framework to efficiently compute the shear and bulk viscosities of strongly coupled gauge theories with gravitational holographic duals involving higher derivat…

hep-th2023★ 22 cited

On Asymptotic Dark Energy in String Theory

Sera Cremonini, Eduardo Gonzalo, Muthusamy Rajaguru +2

We examine bounds on accelerated expansion in asymptotic regions of the moduli space in string theory compactifications to four spacetime dimensions. While there are conjectures th…

hep-th2023★ 7 cited

Mass And Force Relations For Einstein-Maxwell-Dilaton Black Holes

Sera Cremonini, Mirjam Cvetic, Christopher N. Pope +1

We investigate various properties of extremal dyonic static black holes in Einstein-Maxwell-Dilaton theory. Using the fact that the long-range force between two identical extremal…

hep-th2023★ 10 cited

Breaking rotations without violating the KSS viscosity bound

Matteo Baggioli, Sera Cremonini, Laura Early +2

We revisit the computation of the shear viscosity to entropy ratio in a holographic p-wave superfluid model, focusing on the role of rotational symmetry breaking. We study the inte…

hep-th2022★ 5 cited

Long-Range Forces Between Non-Identical Black Holes With Non-BPS Extremal Limits

S. Cremonini, M. Cvetic, C. N. Pope +1

Motivated by recent studies of long-range forces beween identical black holes, we extend these considerations by investigating the forces between two non-identical black holes. We…

hep-th2021★ 17 cited

Repulsive Black Holes and Higher-Derivatives

Sera Cremonini, Callum R. T. Jones, James T. Liu +2

In two-derivative theories of gravity coupled to matter, charged black holes are self-attractive at large distances, with the force vanishing at zero temperature. However, in the p…

hep-th2020★ 24 cited

A NUT Charge Weak Gravity Conjecture from Dimensional Reduction

Sera Cremonini, Callum R. T. Jones, James T. Liu +2

We analyze the constraints on four-derivative corrections to 5d Einstein-Maxwell theory from the black hole Weak Gravity Conjecture (WGC). We calculate the leading corrections to t…

hep-th2020★ 9 cited

Constraining Non-Relativistic RG Flows with Holography

Sera Cremonini, Li Li, Kyle Ritchie +1

We examine non-relativistic holographic RG flows by working with Einstein-Maxwell-scalar theories which support geometries that break Lorentz invariance at some energy scale. We ad…

hep-th2019★ 4 cited

Higher-Derivative Corrections to Entropy and the Weak Gravity Conjecture in Anti-de Sitter Space

Sera Cremonini, Callum R. T. Jones, James T. Liu +1

We compute the four-derivative corrections to the geometry, extremality bound, and thermodynamic quantities of AdS-Reissner-Nordstr{ö}m black holes for general dimensions and horiz…

hep-th2019★ 18 cited

Spectral Weight Suppression and Fermi Arc-like Features with Strong Holographic Lattices

Sera Cremonini, Li Li, Jie Ren

We investigate holographic fermions in uni-directional striped phases, where the breaking of translational invariance can be generated either spontaneously or explicitly. We solve…

hep-th2018★ 17 cited

Anomalous scalings of the cuprate strange metals from nonlinear electrodynamics

Sera Cremonini, Anthony Hoover, Li Li +1

We examine transport in a holographic model which describes, through a nonlinear gauge field sector, generic nonlinear interactions between the charge carriers. Scaling exponents a…

hep-th2018★ 24 cited

Holographic Fermions in Striped Phases

Sera Cremonini, Li Li, Jie Ren

We examine the fermionic response in a holographic model of a low temperature striped phase, working for concreteness with the setup we studied in [Cremonini:2016rbd,Cremonini:2017…

hep-th2018★ 9 cited

Thermoelectric DC conductivities in hyperscaling violating Lifshitz theories

Sera Cremonini, Mirjam Cvetič, Ioannis Papadimitriou

We analytically compute the thermoelectric conductivities at zero frequency (DC) in the holographic dual of a four dimensional Einstein-Maxwell-Axion-Dilaton theory that admits a c…

hep-th2017★ 34 cited

Holographic model for the anomalous scalings of the cuprates

Erin Blauvelt, Sera Cremonini, Anthony Hoover +2

We examine transport in a holographic model in which the dynamics of the charged degrees of freedom is described by the nonlinear Dirac-Born-Infeld (DBI) action. Axionic scalar fie…

hep-th2017★ 31 cited

Backreacted DBI Magnetotransport with Momentum Dissipation

Sera Cremonini, Anthony Hoover, Li Li

We examine magnetotransport in a holographic Dirac-Born-Infeld model, taking into account the effects of backreaction on the geometry. The theory we consider includes axionic scala…

hep-th2017★ 24 cited

Intertwined Orders in Holography: Pair and Charge Density Waves

Sera Cremonini, Li Li, Jie Ren

Building on [1], we examine a holographic model in which a U(1) symmetry and translational invariance are broken spontaneously at the same time. The symmetry breaking is realized t…

hep-th2016★ 40 cited

Holographic Pair and Charge Density Waves

Sera Cremonini, Li Li, Jie Ren

We examine a holographic model in which a U(1) symmetry and translational invariance are broken spontaneously at the same time. Our construction provides an example of a system wit…

hep-th2016★ 42 cited

DC Conductivities from Non-Relativistic Scaling Geometries with Momentum Dissipation

Sera Cremonini, Hai-Shan Liu, Hong Lu +1

We consider a gravitational theory with two Maxwell fields, a dilatonic scalar and spatially dependent axions. Black brane solutions to this theory are Lifshitz-like and violate hy…