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西南理论物理中心系列报告:The photon sphere and response functions in AdS/CFT

作者:点击次数:更新时间:2024年01月24日

报告题目:The photon sphere and response functions in AdS/CFT

报告人: 孙昊宇,University of Texas at Austin

邀 请 人 :周思益

时 间: 2024年1月26号(星期五)15:00

地 点: 腾讯会议:545-826-527

Abstract:We demonstrate that the photon sphere plays a surprising role in the holography for small AdS-Schwarzschild black holes. A precise formula is derived to show how a black hole amplifies or attenuates an oscillating source dual to boundary operators across the bulk. We estimate the quasi-normal modes of small black holes at large angular momenta $l$. The lowest mode matches the phase transition for the massless scalar fields and the null geodesics, which are identified with the short-lived excitations of the black hole at large $l$. This sharpens the conjecture by Hashimoto that the photon sphere seen by a boundary observer is the spatial Fourier transform of the response function. The conjecture agrees excellently with numerics after certain long-lived excitations -- associated with geodesics connecting boundary points, predicted by Festuccia and Liu -- are removed from the response, which is then controlled by the short-lived excitations of the black hole.

Brief CV:Haoyu Sun received his bachelor degrees in physics, math, and microbial biology from in 2014, and PhD in physics in 2020, both from UC Berkeley. He is now a postdoc at UT Austin, associated with the Ultra-Quantum Matter Simons Collaboration. He will move to Georgia Tech as a research scientist this fall. His main interests lie in string theory, holography, and their intersections with geometric topology and condensed matter physics.