Description of Research Area

Search for Fundamental Laws of Non-Equilibrium Steady States by Using the Gauge/Gravity Duality

Research Subject

The gauge/gravity duality (the AdS/CFT correspondence) is a theoretical map between a strongly-interacting gauge theory and a theory of gravity. Interestingly, a finite temperature system of the gauge theory is described by a black hole geometry and the macroscopic physics is "automatically" obtained from the dynamics of gravity. We expect that a gravity description of non-equilibrium systems will be obtained by driving the black hole system by external forces. In my research project, we use this new method to reveal possible fundamental laws of non-equilibrium steady states (NESS). Especially, I am planning to investigate into non-equilibrium phase transitions, effective temperatures of NESS and fundamental laws of NESS.