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Thermalization of the spectral function in strongly coupled two dimensional conformal field theories

arXiv:1212.6066 · doi:10.1007/JHEP04(2013)069

Abstract

Using Wigner transforms of Green functions, we discuss non-equilibrium generalizations of spectral functions and occupation numbers. We develop methods for computing time-dependent spectral functions in conformal field theories holographically dual to thin-shell AdS-Vaidya spacetimes.

53 pages, 9 figures, v2: references added, a few typos corrected