Evidence for fast thermalization in the plane-wave matrix model
Abstract
We perform a numerical simulation of the classical evolution of the plane-wave matrix model with semiclassical initial conditions. Some of these initial conditions thermalize and are dual to a black hole forming from the collision of D-branes in the plane wave geometry. In particular, we consider a large fuzzy sphere (a D2-brane) plus a single eigenvalue (a D0-particle) going exactly through the center of the fuzzy sphere and aimed to intersect it. Including quantum fluctuations of the off-diagonal modes in the initial conditions, with sufficient kinetic energy the configuration collapses to a small size. We also find evidence for fast thermalization: rapidly decaying autocorrelation functions at late times with respect to the natural time scale of the system.
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@article{arxiv.1104.5469,
title = {Evidence for fast thermalization in the plane-wave matrix model},
author = {Curtis T. Asplund and David Berenstein and Diego Trancanelli},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1104.5469},
year = {2012}
}
Comments
5 pages, 5 figures, revtex4 format; v2: minor typos fixed; v3: 8 pages, 9 figures, minor changes, includes a supplement as appeared on PRL