The entanglement entropy has been historically studied by many authors in order to obtain
quantum mechanical interpretations of the gravitational entropy. The discovery of anti-de …

A bstract We use holography to study sensitive dependence on initial conditions in strongly
coupled field theories. Specifically, we mildly perturb a thermofield double state by adding a …

Entanglement and entropy are key concepts standing at the foundations of quantum and
statistical mechanics. Recently, the study of quantum quenches revealed that these …

A bstract We compute the time-dependent entanglement entropy of a CFT which starts in
relatively simple initial states. The initial states are the thermofield double for thermal states …

We review the imaginary time path integral approach to the quench dynamics of conformal
field theories. We show how this technique can be applied to the determination of the time …

In this paper we give an overview of some recent progress in using holography to study
various far-from-equilibrium condensed matter systems. Non-equilibrium problems are …

We consider the time evolution of entanglement entropy after a global quench in a strongly
coupled holographic system, whose subsequent equilibration is described in the gravity …

Using the AdS/CFT correspondence, we probe the scale dependence of thermalization in
strongly coupled field theories following a sudden injection of energy via calculations of two …

We derive in detail several universal features in the time evolution of entanglement entropy
and other nonlocal observables in quenched holographic systems. The quenches are such …

A bstract We study a conjectured connection between AdS/CFT and a real-space quantum
renormalization group scheme, the multi-scale entanglement renormalization ansatz …