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Diffusion in inhomogeneous media (2017)
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Donos, A., Gauntlett, J. P., & Ziogas, V. (2017). Diffusion in inhomogeneous media. Physical Review D, 96(12), Article 125003. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.96.125003

We consider the transport of conserved charges in spatially inhomogeneous quantum systems with a discrete lattice symmetry. We analyze the retarded two-point functions involving the charges and the associated currents at long wavelengths, compared to... Read More about Diffusion in inhomogeneous media.

Boomerang RG flows in M-theory with intermediate scaling (2017)
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Donos, A., Gauntlett, J. P., Rosen, C., & Sosa-Rodriguez, O. (2017). Boomerang RG flows in M-theory with intermediate scaling. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2017(7), Article 128. https://doi.org/10.1007/jhep07%282017%29128

We construct novel RG flows of D=11 supergravity that asymptotically approach AdS4 × S7 in the UV with deformations that break spatial translations in the dual field theory. In the IR the solutions return to exactly the same AdS4 × S7 vacuum, with a... Read More about Boomerang RG flows in M-theory with intermediate scaling.

Holographic DC conductivity and Onsager relations (2017)
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Donos, A., Gauntlett, J. P., Griffin, T., Lohitsiri, N., & Melgar, L. (2017). Holographic DC conductivity and Onsager relations. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2017(7), Article 6. https://doi.org/10.1007/jhep07%282017%29006

Within holography the DC conductivity can be obtained by solving a system of Stokes equations for an auxiliary fluid living on the black hole horizon. We show that these equations can be derived from a novel variational principle involving a function... Read More about Holographic DC conductivity and Onsager relations.

DC conductivity and higher derivative gravity (2017)
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Donos, A., Gauntlett, J. P., Griffin, T., & Melgar, L. (2017). DC conductivity and higher derivative gravity. Classical and Quantum Gravity, 34(13), Article 135015. https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6382/aa744a

For Gauss–Bonnet gravity and in the context of holography we show how the thermal DC conductivity can be obtained by solving a generalised system of Stokes equations for an auxiliary fluid on a curved black hole horizon. For more general higher deriv... Read More about DC conductivity and higher derivative gravity.

Diffusion and chaos from near AdS2 horizons (2017)
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Blake, M., & Donos, A. (2017). Diffusion and chaos from near AdS2 horizons. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2017(2), Article 13. https://doi.org/10.1007/jhep02%282017%29013

We calculate the thermal diffusivity D = κ/cρ and butterfly velocity vB in holographic models that flow to AdS2 × Rd fixed points in the infra-red. We show that both these quantities are governed by the same irrelevant deformation of AdS2 and hence e... Read More about Diffusion and chaos from near AdS2 horizons.

Thermal backflow in CFTs (2017)
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Banks, E., Donos, A., Gauntlett, J. P., Griffin, T., & Melgar, L. (2017). Thermal backflow in CFTs. Physical Review D, 95(2), Article 025022. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.95.025022

We study the thermal transport properties of general conformal field theories (CFTs) on curved spacetimes in the leading order viscous hydrodynamic limit. At the level of linear response, we show that the thermal transport is governed by a system of... Read More about Thermal backflow in CFTs.

Holographic thermal DC response in the hydrodynamic limit (2017)
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Banks, E., Donos, A., Gauntlett, J. P., Griffin, T., & Melgar, L. (2017). Holographic thermal DC response in the hydrodynamic limit. Classical and Quantum Gravity, 34(4), Article 045001. https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6382/aa51df

We consider black hole solutions of Einstein gravity that describe deformations of CFTs at finite temperature in which spatial translations have been broken explicitly. We focus on deformations that are periodic in the non-compact spatial directions,... Read More about Holographic thermal DC response in the hydrodynamic limit.