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High temperature behavior of non-local observables in boosted strongly coupled plasma: A holographic study

High Energy Physics - Theory 2020-08-26 v2

Abstract

In this work, we perform a holographic analysis to study non local observables associated to a uniformly \textit{boosted} strongly coupled large NN thermal plasma in dd-dimensions. In order to accomplish the holographic analysis, the appropriate dual bulk theory turns out to be d+1d+1 dimensional \textit{boosted} AdS-Schwarzschild blackhole background. In particular, we compute entanglement entropy of the boosted plasma at high temperature living inside a strip geometry with entangling width ll in the boundary at a particular instant of time. We also study the two-point correlators in the boundary by following geodesic approximation method. For analyzing the effect of boosting on the thermal plasma and correspondingly on both non local observables, we keep the alignment of the width of region of interest both parallel and perpendicular to the direction of the boost. We find our results significantly modified compared to those in un-boosted plasma up to the quadratic order of the boost velocity vv. More interestingly, the relative orientation of the boost and the entangling width plays a crucial role to quantify the holographic entanglement entropy in the boundary theory. The breaking of rotational symmetry in the boundary theory due to the boosting of the plasma along a specific flat direction causes this interesting feature.

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@article{arxiv.1909.03088,
  title  = {High temperature behavior of non-local observables in boosted strongly coupled plasma: A holographic study},
  author = {Atanu Bhatta and Shankhadeep Chakrabortty and Suat Dengiz and Ercan Kilicarslan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1909.03088},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

25+1 pages, New results and improved exposition. Subsection added to compute entanglement entropy for perpendicular case. References added. Published in Eur.Phys.J.C