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String Theory and Holographic Duality

Prof. Hong Liu · Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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About

This string theory course focuses on holographic duality (also known as gauge / gravity duality or AdS / CFT) as a novel method of approaching and connecting a range of diverse subjects, including quantum gravity / black holes, QCD at extreme conditions, exotic condensed matter systems, and quantum information.

Lectures

Video Lectures

  1. Lecture 1: Emergence of Gravity 1 h 32 min · Video
  2. Lecture 2: Classical Black Hole Geometry 1 h 19 min · Video
  3. Lecture 3: Causal Structure of a Black Hole and Black Hole Temperature 1 h 23 min · Video
  4. Lecture 4: Physical Interpretation of Black Hole Temperature 1 h 29 min · Video
  5. Lecture 5: Black Hole Thermodynamics 1 h 20 min · Video
  6. Lecture 6: Holographic Principle 1 h 27 min · Video
  7. Lecture 7: Structure of Large-N Expansion 1 h 24 min · Video
  8. Lecture 8: Large-N Expansion as a String Theory, Part I 1 h 30 min · Video
  9. Lecture 9: Large-N expansion as a String Theory, Part II 1 h 54 min · Video
  10. Lecture 10: Basics of String Theory and Light-cone Gauge 1 h 43 min · Video
  11. Lecture 11: String Theory in the Light-Cone Gauge 1 h 23 min · Video
  12. Lecture 12: String Spectrum and Graviton 1 h 45 min · Video
  13. Lecture 13: Physics of D-branes, Part I 1 h 24 min · Video
  14. Lecture 14: Physics of D-branes, Part II 1 h 53 min · Video
  15. Lecture 15: Physics of D-branes, Part III 1 h 25 min · Video
  16. Lecture 16: Geometry of D-branes and AdS / CFT Conjecture 1 h 50 min · Video
  17. Lecture 17: More on AdS / CFT Duality 1 h 49 min · Video
  18. Lecture 18: General Aspects of the Duality 1 h 25 min · Video
  19. Lecture 19: Mass-dimension Relation 1 h 53 min · Video
  20. Lecture 20: Euclidean Correlation Functions: Two-point Functions 1 h 23 min · Video
  21. Lecture 21: Euclidean Correlation Functions: Higher-point Functions 1 h 21 min · Video
  22. Lecture 22: Computation of the Wilson Loop 1 h 51 min · Video
  23. Lecture 23: Duality at a Finite Temperature and Finite Chemical Potential 1 h 26 min · Video
  24. Lecture 24: Holographic Entanglement Entropy 1 h 57 min · Video

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Credits and licence

Institution
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Department
Physics
Teacher
Prof. Hong Liu
Term
Fall 2014
Level
Graduate
Language
English
Subjects
Physics
Source
MIT OpenCourseWare
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA 4.0, as MIT OpenCourseWare states it. Non-commercial use only. MIT OpenCourseWare's terms
Attribution
Prof. Hong Liu. String Theory and Holographic Duality. Fall 2014. Massachusetts Institute of Technology: MIT OpenCourseWare, https://ocw.mit.edu/. License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA.
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