Exploring nonlocal observables in shock wave collisions
Sep 13, 2016
28 pages
Published in:
- JHEP 11 (2016) 054
- Published: Nov 9, 2016
e-Print:
- 1609.03676 [hep-th]
Report number:
- TUW-16-07,
- MIT-CTP-4831
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Abstract: (Springer)
We study the time evolution of 2-point functions and entanglement entropy in strongly anisotropic, inhomogeneous and time-dependent super Yang-Mills theory in the large N and large ’t Hooft coupling limit using AdS/CFT. On the gravity side this amounts to calculating the length of geodesics and area of extremal surfaces in the dynamical background of two colliding gravitational shockwaves, which we do numerically. We discriminate between three classes of initial conditions corresponding to wide, intermediate and narrow shocks, and show that they exhibit different phenomenology with respect to the nonlocal observables that we determine. Our results permit to use (holographic) entanglement entropy as an order parameter to distinguish between the two phases of the cross-over from the transparency to the full-stopping scenario in dynamical Yang-Mills plasma formation, which is frequently used as a toy model for heavy ion collisions. The time evolution of entanglement entropy allows to discern four regimes: highly efficient initial growth of entanglement, linear growth, (post) collisional drama and late time (polynomial) fall off. Surprisingly, we found that 2-point functions can be sensitive to the geometry inside the black hole apparent horizon, while we did not find such cases for the entanglement entropy.Note:
- 28 pp, 9 figs; v2: updated references, changed color bars in Figure 2 and Figure 6
- AdS-CFT Correspondence
- Black Holes
- Holography and quark-gluon plasmas
- Quark-Gluon Plasma
- supersymmetry: 4
- entropy: entanglement
- expansion 1/N
- shock waves
- nonlocal
- two-point function
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