Towards Collisions of Inhomogeneous Shockwaves in AdS
High Energy Physics - Theory
2015-07-31 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Nuclear Theory
Abstract
We perform a numerical simulation of the evolution of inhomogeneities with transverse profile in a collision of gravitational shockwaves in asymptotically anti-de Sitter spacetime. This constitutes a step closer towards an accurate holographic description of the thermalization of a strongly coupled plasma, which can model the dynamics of heavy ion collisions. The results indicate that the considered inhomogeneities typically become hydrodynamical earlier or at the same moment when hydrodynamics applies to the background, even though they decay slowly.
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Cite
@article{arxiv.1407.5628,
title = {Towards Collisions of Inhomogeneous Shockwaves in AdS},
author = {Daniel Fernández},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1407.5628},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
11 pages, 4 figures; added figure and new results. Mathematica notebooks can be found at http://users.physics.uoc.gr/~fernandez/Page5.html