1212.6066 (V. Balasubramanian et al.)

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

V. Balasubramanian, A. Bernamonti, B. Craps, V. Keränen, E. Keski-Vakkuri, B. Müller, L. Thorlacius, J. Vanhoof

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.

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