35 research outputs found
Diagonal and Hall holographic conductivities dual to a bulk condensate of magnetic monopoles
By employing the holographic operator mixing technique to deal with coupled
perturbations in the gauge/gravity duality, I numerically compute the real and
imaginary parts of the diagonal and Hall AC conductivities in a strongly
coupled quantum field theory dual to a bulk condensate of magnetic monopoles.
The results obtained show that a conclusion previously derived in the
literature, namely, the vanishing of holographic DC conductivities in
3-dimensional strongly coupled quantum field theories dual to a 4-dimensional
bulk magnetic monopole condensate, also applies to the calculation of diagonal
and Hall conductivities in the presence of a topological -term.
Therefore, the condensation of magnetic monopoles in the bulk is suggested as a
rather general and robust mechanism to generate dual strongly coupled quantum
field theories with zero DC conductivities. The interplay between frequency,
-angle and the characteristic mass scale of the monopole condensate on
the results for the conductivities is also investigated.Comment: 22 pages, 12 figures, version accepted for publication in European
Physical Journal
Homogeneous isotropization and equilibration of a strongly coupled plasma with a critical point
We use holography to investigate the process of homogeneous isotropization
and thermalization in a strongly coupled Super Yang-Mills
plasma charged under a subgroup of the global R-symmetry which
features a critical point in its phase diagram. Isotropization dynamics at late
times is affected by the critical point in agreement with the behavior of the
characteristic relaxation time extracted from the analysis of the lowest
non-hydrodynamic quasinormal mode in the quintuplet (external scalar)
channel of the theory. In particular, the isotropization time may decrease or
increase as the chemical potential increases depending on whether one is far or
close enough to the critical point, respectively. On the other hand, the
thermalization time associated with the equilibration of the scalar condensate,
which happens only after the system has relaxed to a (nearly) isotropic state,
is found to always increase with chemical potential in agreement with the
characteristic relaxation time associated to the lowest non-hydrodynamic
quasinormal mode in the singlet (dilaton) channel. These conclusions
about the late dynamics of the system are robust in the sense that they hold
for different initial conditions seeding the time evolution of the
far-from-equilibrium plasma.Comment: 66 pages, 27 figures, calculation of the QNMs of the dilaton channel
added, revised conclusions. Accepted for publication in JHEP. v4: typos
corrected; v5: a few more typos correcte
Energy loss, equilibration, and thermodynamics of a baryon rich strongly coupled quark-gluon plasma
Lattice data for the QCD equation of state and the baryon susceptibility near
the crossover phase transition (at zero baryon density) are used to determine
the input parameters of a 5-dimensional Einstein-Maxwell-Dilaton holographic
model that provides a consistent holographic framework to study both
equilibrium and out-of-equilibrium properties of a hot and {\it baryon rich}
strongly coupled quark-gluon plasma (QGP). We compare our holographic equation
of state computed at nonzero baryon chemical potential, , with recent
lattice calculations and find quantitative agreement for the pressure and the
speed of sound for MeV. This holographic model is used to
obtain holographic predictions for the temperature and dependence of
the drag force and the Langevin diffusion coefficients associated with heavy
quark jet propagation as well as the jet quenching parameter and the
shooting string energy loss of light quarks in the baryon dense plasma. We find
that the energy loss of heavy and light quarks generally displays a nontrivial,
fast-varying behavior as a function of the temperature near the crossover.
Moreover, energy loss is also found to generally increase due to nonzero baryon
density effects even though this strongly coupled liquid cannot be described in
terms of well defined quasiparticle excitations. Furthermore, to get a glimpse
of how thermalization occurs in a hot and baryon dense QGP, we study how the
lowest quasinormal mode of an external massless scalar disturbance in the bulk
is affected by a nonzero baryon charge. We find that the equilibration time
associated with the lowest quasinormal mode decreases in a dense medium.Comment: 51 pages, 14 figures, corrected results for the Langevin
coefficients, appendix and references added. Version accepted for publication
in JHE