Files

602994.pdf (193.22 KB)

Document type

Article

Version

Published version

Publication date

2011-08-30

All rights reserved

Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/2445/134463

Anisotropic N=4 Super-Yang-Mills Plasma and Its Instabilities

Journal Title

Authors

Director/Tutor

Additional contribution

Journal ISSN

Volume Title

Abstract

We present a type-IIB supergravity solution dual to a spatially anisotropic finite-temperature N = 4 super-Yang-Mills plasma. The solution is static and completely regular. The full geometry can be viewed as a renormalization group flow from an ultraviolet anti-de Sitter geometry to an infrared Lifshitz-like geometry. The anisotropy can be equivalently understood as resulting from a position-dependent θ term or from a nonzero number density of dissolved D 7 -branes. The holographic stress tensor is conserved and anisotropic. The presence of a conformal anomaly plays an important role in the thermodynamics. The phase diagram exhibits homogeneous and inhomogeneous (i.e., mixed) phases. In some regions the homogeneous phase displays instabilities reminiscent of those of weakly coupled plasmas. We comment on similarities with QCD at finite baryon density and with the phenomenon of cavitation.

Related resource

https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.107.101601

Subject

Anisotropia, Experiments

Subject (English)

Anisotropy, Experiments

Citation

Collections

Articles publicats en revistes (Física Quàntica i Astrofísica)
Articles publicats en revistes (Institut de Ciències del Cosmos (ICCUB))

Citation

MATEOS, David (Mateos Solé) and TRANCANELLI, Diego. Anisotropic N=4 Super-Yang-Mills Plasma and Its Instabilities. Physical Review Letters. 2011. Vol. 107, num. 10, pags. 101601. ISSN 0031-9007. [consulted: 6 of October of 2026]. Available at: https://hdl.handle.net/2445/134463

Export metadata

JSON - METS

Share record