| DATE: |
2011-06-21 11:00 - 12:00 |
| PLACE: |
Kenkyu Honkan 1F, Meeting Room 1 |
| TITLE: |
A Holographic Study of Thermalization in Strongly Coupled Plasmas |
| CONTACT: |
Yoshinori MATSUO, ymatsuo-AT-post.kek.jp |
| SPEAKER: |
Prof. Masaki Shigemori (Nagoya University) |
| LANGUAGE: |
English |
| URL: |
http://research.kek.jp/group/www-theory/schedule.html |
| ABSTRACT: |
Using the AdS/CFT correspondence, we probe the scale-dependence of thermalization in strongly coupled field theories following a quench via saddlepoint calculations of 2-point functions, Wilson loops and entanglement entropy in d=2,3,4. For homogeneous initial conditions, the entanglement entropy thermalizes slowest, and sets a timescale for equilibration that saturates a causality bound. In this strongly coupled setting, the UV thermalizes first. |
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