Jun 1 – 5, 2026
YITP, Kyoto University
Asia/Tokyo timezone

Fluctuation-response inequality and gravity

Jun 1, 2026, 4:00 PM
30m
Panasonic Auditorium, Yukawa Hall (YITP, Kyoto University)

Panasonic Auditorium, Yukawa Hall

YITP, Kyoto University

Speaker

Shin Nakamura (Chuo University)

Description

The fluctuation–response inequality (FRI), proposed by Dechant and Sasa, is a general relation between fluctuations and responses in nonequilibrium systems. For instance, the FRI states that the ratio of the effective temperature to the differential mobility of a test particle in a thermal bath is a non-decreasing function of the particle’s velocity. In this work, we compute both the effective temperature and the differential mobility of a probe in a thermal bath using gauge/gravity duality in various gravitational backgrounds. We find that the FRI is satisfied in most setups consistent with superstring theory, with the exception of a few ill-defined cases. We also discuss how the geometry on the gravity side is constrained by the FRI.

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