Phase transitions, inhomogeneous horizons and second-order hydrodynamics

DOI10.1007/JHEP06(2017)129zbMATH Open1380.83114arXiv1703.02948OpenAlexW2593125081MaRDI QIDQ683252FDOQ683252

Authors: Maximilian Attems, Yago Bea, Jorge Casalderrey-Solana, David Mateos, Miquel Triana, Miguel Zilhão 

Publication date: 5 February 2018

Published in: Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We use holography to study the spinodal instability of a four-dimensional, strongly-coupled gauge theory with a first-order thermal phase transition. We place the theory on a cylinder in a set of homogeneous, unstable initial states. The dual gravity configurations are black branes afflicted by a Gregory-Laflamme instability. We numerically evolve Einstein's equations to follow the instability until the system settles down to a stationary, inhomogeneous black brane. The dual gauge theory states have constant temperature but non-constant energy density. We show that the time evolution of the instability and the final states are accurately described by second-order hydrodynamics. In the static limit, the latter reduces to a single, second-order, non-linear differential equation from which the inhomogeneous final states can be derived.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1703.02948

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zbMATH Keywords

black holesgauge-gravity correspondenceholography and quark-gluon plasmasGregory-Laflamme instability

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Classical and relativistic thermodynamics (80A10) Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics (81T40) Black holes (83C57) Space-time singularities, cosmic censorship, etc. (83C75) Quantum hydrodynamics and relativistic hydrodynamics (76Y05)

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Uses Software

• iEBE-VISHNU

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