Fariña Biasi, AnxoMas Solé, JavierSerantes Rubianes, Alexandre2020-04-142020-04-142019Biasi, A., Mas, J. & Serantes, A. Gravitational wave driving of a gapped holographic system. J. High Energ. Phys. 2019, 161 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP05(2019)161http://hdl.handle.net/10347/21407This work addresses the response of a holographic conformal field theory to a homogeneous gravitational periodic driving. The dual geometry is the AdS-soliton, which models a strongly coupled quantum system in a gapped phase, on a compact domain. The response is a time-periodic geometry up to a driving amplitude threshold which decreases with the driving frequency. Beyond that, collapse to a black hole occurs, signaling decoherence and thermalization in the dual theory. At some frequencies, we also find a resonant coupling to the gravitational normal modes of the AdS-soliton, yielding a nonlinearly bound state. We also speculate on the possible uses of quantum strongly coupled systems to build resonant gravitational wave detectorseng© The Authors 2019. Open Access. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC-BY 4.0), which permits any use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author(s) and source are creditedhttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/AdS-CFT correspondenceGauge-gravity correspondencejournal article10.1007/JHEP05(2019)1611029-8479open access