AdSCFTlike

AdSCFTlike is a theoretical framework in physics that explores analogies and connections between different physical theories. The name itself hints at this, combining "AdS" for Anti-de Sitter space, a key concept in string theory and quantum gravity, and "CFT" for Conformal Field Theory, a type of quantum field theory with special symmetries. The "like" suggests that the framework examines situations that share similarities with the well-established AdS/CFT correspondence, but may not be exact realizations of it.

The core idea behind AdSCFTlike is to leverage the insights gained from the AdS/CFT correspondence to understand other physical systems. This correspondence posits a duality, or equivalence, between a theory of gravity in Anti-de Sitter space and a quantum field theory living on its boundary. This duality has been incredibly powerful for studying strongly coupled quantum field theories using the language of gravity, and vice versa. AdSCFTlike extends this principle by looking for analogous relationships in scenarios that might differ in specific aspects from the original AdS/CFT setup.

Researchers investigate AdSCFTlike by identifying potential dualities in various contexts, such as different types of spacetimes, modifications to the field theories involved, or the inclusion of additional fields. The goal is to discover new ways to map complex, strongly interacting quantum phenomena to simpler, more tractable gravitational descriptions, or to use insights from quantum field theory to shed light on gravitational theories. This can involve exploring phenomena like thermalization, quantum entanglement, and the behavior of strongly correlated matter.