Gauge/gravity duality and thermalization of a boost-invariant perfect fluid

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2006-06-16

arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0606149v3

Phys.Rev.D74:046007,2006

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Theory

11 pages, no figures; v2: misprints corrected, results unchanged; v3: reference added

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevD.74.046007

We derive the equation for the quasi-normal modes corresponding to the scalar excitation of a black hole moving away in the fifth dimension. This geometry is the AdS/CFT dual of a boost-invariant expanding perfect fluid in N=4 SUSY Yang-Mills theory at large proper-time. On the gauge-theory side, the dominant solution of the equation describes the decay back to equilibrium of a scalar excitation of the perfect fluid. Its characteristic proper-time can be interpreted as a thermalization time of the perfect fluid, which is a universal (and numerically small) constant in units of the unique scale of the problem. This may provide a new insight on the short thermalization-time puzzle encountered in heavy-ion collision phenomenology. A nontrivial scaling behaviour in proper-time is obtained which can be interpreted in terms of a slowly varying adiabatic approximation.

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