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20142026
most citedRigorous bounds on transport from causality

52 citations · 393 across the 22 of their papers we have counts for

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22 papers

nucl-th2026

Hydrodynamic attractors

Tilman Enss, Michal P. Heller, Alexandre Serantes +1

Attractors are effective low-dimensional structures, defined in a chosen set of observables, that trajectories from different initial states approach; hydrodynamic attractors are t…

hep-th2026

Temporal Entanglement from Twist Correlators in 2d Conformal Field Theory and Holography

Alice Bernamonti, Federico Galli, Michal P. Heller +2

We formulate timelike entanglement entropy and its Rényi extension in two-dimensional conformal field theory through the analytic continuation of replica twist correlators to time-…

hep-th2025

Stable evolution of relativistic hydrodynamics order-by-order in gradients

Michal P. Heller, Alexandre Serantes, Michał Spaliński +1

We provide a systematic framework for solving the initial value problem for relativistic hydrodynamics formulated as a gradient expansion. Secular growth is handled by a suitable c…

hep-th2025

Temporal Entanglement from Holographic Entanglement Entropy

Michal P. Heller, Fabio Ori, Alexandre Serantes

Recently, several notions of entanglement in time have emerged as a novel frontier in quantum many-body physics, quantum field theory and gravity. We propose a systematic prescript…

hep-th2024

Multitrace deformations and the nonlinear stability of Anti-de Sitter space

Alexandre Serantes, David Travieso Mayo, Javier Mas

We investigate the nonlinear stability of global Anti-de Sitter space in the presence of multitrace deformations utilizing an Einstein-Klein-Gordon system with a top-down scalar po…

hep-th2024★ 28 cited

Geometric Interpretation of Timelike Entanglement Entropy

Michal P. Heller, Fabio Ori, Alexandre Serantes

Analytic continuations of holographic entanglement entropy in which the boundary subregion extends along a timelike direction have brought a promise of a novel, time-centric probe…

hep-th2023★ 20 cited

The Hydrohedron: Bootstrapping Relativistic Hydrodynamics

Michal P. Heller, Alexandre Serantes, Michał Spaliński +1

As an effective theory, relativistic hydrodynamics is fixed by symmetries up to a set of transport coefficients. A lot of effort has been devoted to explicit calculations of these…

hep-th2023★ 52 cited

Rigorous bounds on transport from causality

Michal P. Heller, Alexandre Serantes, Michał Spaliński +1

We use causality to derive a number of simple and universal constraints on dispersion relations, which describe the location of singularities of retarded two-point functions in rel…

hep-th2022★ 2 cited

Convergence of the Fefferman-Graham expansion and complex black hole anatomy

Alexandre Serantes, Benjamin Withers

Given a set of sources and one-point function data for a Lorentzian holographic QFT, does the Fefferman-Graham expansion converge? If it does, what sets the radius of convergence,…

hep-th2021★ 18 cited

Relativistic Hydrodynamics: A Singulant Perspective

Michal P. Heller, Alexandre Serantes, Michał Spaliński +2

There is growing evidence that the hydrodynamic gradient expansion is factorially divergent. We advocate for using Dingle's singulants as a way to gain analytic control over its la…

hep-th2021★ 16 cited

Hydrodynamic Gradient Expansion Diverges beyond Bjorken Flow

Michal P. Heller, Alexandre Serantes, Michał Spaliński +2

The gradient expansion is the fundamental organising principle underlying relativistic hydrodynamics, yet understanding its convergence properties for general nonlinear flows has p…

hep-th2020★ 34 cited

Convergence of hydrodynamic modes: insights from kinetic theory and holography

Michal P. Heller, Alexandre Serantes, Michał Spaliński +2

We study the mechanisms setting the radius of convergence of hydrodynamic dispersion relations in kinetic theory in the relaxation time approximation. This introduces a qualitative…

hep-th2020★ 7 cited

Transseries for causal diffusive systems

Michal P. Heller, Alexandre Serantes, Michał Spaliński +2

The large proper-time behaviour of expanding boost-invariant fluids has provided many crucial insights into quark-gluon plasma dynamics. Here we formulate and explore the late-time…

hep-th2020★ 42 cited

Hydrodynamic gradient expansion in linear response theory

Michal P. Heller, Alexandre Serantes, Michał Spaliński +2

A foundational question in relativistic fluid mechanics concerns the properties of the hydrodynamic gradient expansion at large orders. We establish the precise conditions under wh…

hep-th2019★ 12 cited

Gravitational wave driving of a gapped holographic system

Anxo Biasi, Javier Mas, Alexandre Serantes

This work addresses the response of a holographic conformal field theory to a homogeneous gravitational periodic driving. The dual geometry is the AdS-soliton, which models a stron…

hep-th2017★ 26 cited

Floquet Scalar Dynamics in Global AdS

Anxo Biasi, Pablo Carracedo, Javier Mas +2

We study periodically driven scalar fields and the resulting geometries with global AdS asymptotics. These solutions describe the strongly coupled dynamics of dual finite-size quan…

hep-th2016★ 10 cited

Adiabatic pumping solutions in global AdS

Pablo Carracedo, Javier Mas, Daniele Musso +1

We construct a family of very simple stationary solutions to gravity coupled to a massless scalar field in global AdS. They involve a constantly rising source for the scalar field…

hep-th2016★ 17 cited

Stability of Charged Global AdS Spacetimes

Raúl Arias, Javier Mas, Alexandre Serantes

We study linear and nonlinear stability of asymptotically AdS solutions in Einstein-Maxwell-scalar theory. After summarizing the set of static solutions we first examine thermo…

hep-th2016★ 9 cited

Holographic Quenches with a Gap

Emilia da Silva, Esperanza Lopez, Javier Mas +1

In order to holographically model quenches with a gapped final hamiltonian, we consider a gravity-scalar theory in anti-de Sitter space with an infrared hard wall. We allow a time…

gr-qc2015★ 9 cited

Oscillating Shells in Anti-de Sitter Space

Javier Mas, Alexandre Serantes

We study the dynamics of a spherically symmetric thin shell of perfect fluid embedded in d-dimensional Anti-de Sitter space-time. In global coordinates, besides collapsing solution…

hep-th2014★ 44 cited

Collapse and Revival in Holographic Quenches

Emilia da Silva, Esperanza Lopez, Javier Mas +1

We study holographic models related to global quantum quenches in finite size systems. The holographic set up describes naturally a CFT, which we consider on a circle and a sphere.…

hep-th2014★ 47 cited

Holographic Relaxation of Finite Size Isolated Quantum Systems

Javier Abajo-Arrastia, Emilia da Silva, Esperanza Lopez +2

We study holographically the out of equilibrium dynamics of a finite size closed quantum system in 2+1 dimensions, modelled by the collapse of a shell of a massless scalar field in…