Quasinormal modes are eigenmodes of dissipative systems. Perturbations of classical
gravitational backgrounds involving black holes or branes naturally lead to quasinormal …

We review recent progress in applying the AdS/CFT correspondence to finite-temperature
field theory. In particular, we show how the hydrodynamic behavior of field theory is reflected …

Gauge/gravity duality creates new links between quantum theory and gravity. It has led to
new concepts in mathematics and physics, and provides new tools to solve problems in …

Heavy ion collision experiments recreating the quark-gluon plasma that filled the nascent
universe have established that it is a nearly perfect liquid that flows with such minimal …

Black branes in AdS 5 appear in a four parameter family labeled by their velocity and
temperature. Promoting these parameters to Goldstone modes or collective coordinate fields …

We show that at the level of linear response the low-frequency limit of a strongly coupled
field theory at finite temperature is determined by the horizon geometry of its gravity dual, ie …

It has been conjectured that the velocity of sound in any medium is smaller than the velocity
of light in vacuum divided by 3. Simple arguments support this bound in nonrelativistic …

We extend the recent work on fluid-gravity correspondence to charged black-branes by
determining the metric duals to arbitrary charged fluid configuration up to second order in …

We discuss recent developments in the hydrodynamic description of strongly coupled
conformal field theories using the AdS/CFT correspondence. In particular, we review aspects …

This review covers our current understanding of strongly coupled Quark–Gluon Plasma
(sQGP), especially theoretical progress in:(i) explaining the RHIC data by hydrodynamics;(ii) …