Holographic Brownian dynamics of a heavy particle in a boosted thermal plasma background

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Auteurs principaux: Chowdhury, Anirban Roy, Saha, Ashis, Gangopadhyay, Sunandan
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author Chowdhury, Anirban Roy
Saha, Ashis
Gangopadhyay, Sunandan
author_facet Chowdhury, Anirban Roy
Saha, Ashis
Gangopadhyay, Sunandan
contents In this work, we have performed a detailed holographic analysis of the stochastic dynamics of a heavy particle propagating through a strongly coupled plasma moving with a constant velocity along a fixed spatial direction. To model this scenario within the framework of the AdS/CFT correspondence, we consider a boosted AdS black brane geometry in the bulk. The boost corresponds to the uniform motion of the plasma on the boundary field theory side. The presence of this boost introduces a preferred direction, leading to an anisotropic environment in which the behavior of the Brownian particle differs depending on its direction of motion. Consequently, we examine two distinct cases, namely,Brownian motion parallel to the direction of the boost and motion perpendicular to it. In this work we have computed the diffusion coefficient for both along the boost and perpendicular to the boost directions. We have obtained the diffusion coefficient by following the two different approaches in both the cases. These complementary approaches yield consistent results, thereby reinforcing the reliability of the computations carried out. Additionally, we verify the fluctuation-dissipation theorem within this anisotropic setup, confirming its validity in both longitudinal and transverse to the direction of boost. Our findings provide deeper insight into the non-equilibrium transport properties of strongly coupled plasma and further elucidate the holographic description of Brownian motion in anisotropic backgrounds. Finally, we proceed to holographically compute the Butterfly velocity by using the entanglement wedge subregion duality and express the diffusion coefficients in terms of the chaotic observables.
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Chowdhury, Anirban Roy
Saha, Ashis
Gangopadhyay, Sunandan
High Energy Physics - Theory
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
In this work, we have performed a detailed holographic analysis of the stochastic dynamics of a heavy particle propagating through a strongly coupled plasma moving with a constant velocity along a fixed spatial direction. To model this scenario within the framework of the AdS/CFT correspondence, we consider a boosted AdS black brane geometry in the bulk. The boost corresponds to the uniform motion of the plasma on the boundary field theory side. The presence of this boost introduces a preferred direction, leading to an anisotropic environment in which the behavior of the Brownian particle differs depending on its direction of motion. Consequently, we examine two distinct cases, namely,Brownian motion parallel to the direction of the boost and motion perpendicular to it. In this work we have computed the diffusion coefficient for both along the boost and perpendicular to the boost directions. We have obtained the diffusion coefficient by following the two different approaches in both the cases. These complementary approaches yield consistent results, thereby reinforcing the reliability of the computations carried out. Additionally, we verify the fluctuation-dissipation theorem within this anisotropic setup, confirming its validity in both longitudinal and transverse to the direction of boost. Our findings provide deeper insight into the non-equilibrium transport properties of strongly coupled plasma and further elucidate the holographic description of Brownian motion in anisotropic backgrounds. Finally, we proceed to holographically compute the Butterfly velocity by using the entanglement wedge subregion duality and express the diffusion coefficients in terms of the chaotic observables.
title Holographic Brownian dynamics of a heavy particle in a boosted thermal plasma background
topic High Energy Physics - Theory
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.20889