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Phase Transitions, Inhomogeneous Horizons and Second-Order Hydrodynamics

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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.

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Journal of High Energy Physics, 2017, vol. 1706, num. 129

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cc-by (c) Attems, Maximilian et al., 2017

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Articles publicats en revistes (Física Quàntica i Astrofísica)

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Phase Transitions, Inhomogeneous Horizons and Second-Order Hydrodynamics