A Holographic Open Quantum System
Abstract
We construct a holographic open quantum system by coupling two CFTs through a double trace deformation and tracing out the bath degrees of freedom within the Schwinger-Keldysh formalism. This procedure yields an effective description of the nonunitary reduced dynamics of the remaining sector, whose linear response is encoded in its retarded Green's function. Working perturbatively in the double trace coupling, we derive closed form expressions for the quasinormal modes of several coupled geometries involving pure AdS and rotating or nonrotating BTZ black holes, considering both possible system/bath assignments. For the nonrotating configurations previously investigated in arXiv:2509.14312, our analytic expressions agree with the numerical results, while our treatment extends the analysis to configurations involving rotating BTZ black holes. Finally, moving beyond perturbation theory, we derive a relation between dissipation and transmission in the general AdS-BTZ setup.
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BibTeX
@misc{vargas2026holographic,
title = {{A Holographic Open Quantum System}},
author = {Ignacio Quiroz Vargas and Merna Youssef},
howpublished = {arXiv},
year = {2026},
month = sep,
doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2609.28644},
eprint = {2609.28644},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.28644},
note = {CC BY 4.0},
}
RIS
TY - UNPB
TI - A Holographic Open Quantum System
AU - Ignacio Quiroz Vargas
AU - Merna Youssef
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/09/23
PB - arXiv
DO - 10.48550/arxiv.2609.28644
UR - https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.28644
AB - We construct a holographic open quantum system by coupling two CFTs through a double trace deformation and tracing out the bath degrees of freedom within the Schwinger-Keldysh formalism. This procedure yields an effective description of the nonunitary reduced dynamics of the remaining sector, whose linear response is encoded in its retarded Green's function. Working perturbatively in the double trace coupling, we derive closed form expressions for the quasinormal modes of several coupled geometries involving pure AdS and rotating or nonrotating BTZ black holes, considering both possible system/bath assignments. For the nonrotating configurations previously investigated in arXiv:2509.14312, our analytic expressions agree with the numerical results, while our treatment extends the analysis to configurations involving rotating BTZ black holes. Finally, moving beyond perturbation theory, we derive a relation between dissipation and transmission in the general AdS-BTZ setup.
ER -