Applied Holography A Practical Mini-Course /

• Main Author: Baggioli, Matteo (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: SpringerBriefs in Physics,
• Subjects: Quantum field theory.; String theory.; Physics.; Gravitation.; Superconductivity.; Superconductors.; Quantum Field Theories, String Theory.; Numerical and Computational Physics, Simulation.; Classical and Quantum Gravitation, Relativity Theory.; Strongly Correlated Systems, Superconductivity.

This primer is a collection of notes based on lectures that were originally given at IIT Madras (India) and at IFT Madrid (Spain). It is a concise and pragmatic course on applied holography focusing on the basic analytic and numerical techniques involved. The presented lectures are not intended to p...

Table of Contents:

• A Strings-less introduction to AdS-CFT
• A Practical Understanding of the Dictionary
• The first big success: η/s and Hydrodynamics
• Holographic Transport via analytic and numerical techniques.