Further info
Relaxation and driven steady states in holography and beyond
A curated set of accessible background pages, reviews and lecture notes related to this research programme.
Wikipedia primers
Background on holography, hydrodynamics and systems maintained away from equilibrium.
AdS/CFT correspondenceAn introduction to gauge-gravity duality and the idea of describing strongly coupled field theories through gravitational systems.Non-equilibrium thermodynamicsMacroscopic descriptions of transport, fluxes and systems outside global thermodynamic equilibrium.Fluid dynamicsThe continuum description of flowing matter that provides the long-wavelength language used throughout the programme.Fluctuation-dissipation theoremThe equilibrium relation between spontaneous fluctuations and linear response, and a useful reference point for driven systems.
Reviews and research background
Key papers and pedagogical material behind quasihydrodynamics, fluid-gravity duality and long-lived modes.
Holography and hydrodynamics with weakly broken symmetriesA systematic introduction to quasihydrodynamics and approximately conserved quantities, including holographic constructions.Nonlinear Fluid Dynamics from GravityA foundational derivation of nonlinear boundary fluid dynamics from gravitational dynamics in AdS.Lectures on hydrodynamic fluctuations in relativistic theoriesPedagogical notes on hydrodynamic correlation functions, fluctuations, effective actions and the derivative expansion.Gauge/String Duality, Hot QCD and Heavy Ion CollisionsA broad introduction to gauge-string duality with extensive discussion of strong-coupling transport and hydrodynamics.