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Using Wigner transforms of Green functions, we discuss non-equilibrium generalizations of spectral functions and occupation numbers. We develop methods for computing time-dependent spectral functions in conformal field theories holographically dual to thin-shell AdS-Vaidya spacetimes.
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Balasubramanian, V., Bernamonti, A., Craps, B. et al. Thermalization of the spectral function in strongly coupled two dimensional conformal field theories. J. High Energ. Phys. 2013, 69 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP04(2013)069
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