Status | Confirmed |
Seminar Series | RENC-THEO |
Subjects | hep-th |
Date | Thursday 9 January 2020 |
Time | 11:40 |
Institute | IHP |
Seminar Room | 314 |
Speaker's Last Name | Maximilian Attems |
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Speaker's Institution | Universidade de Santiago de Compostela |
Title | Holographic dynamics of phase separation |
Abstract | Understanding hot unstable plasmas such as the ones produced at RHIC is a notoriously difficult open problem that needs to be tackled in order to elucidate the QCD phase diagram. The detection of a spinodal instability of the plasma would present a key signature of the presumed first-order phase transition. In this talk I will report on progress in describing hot unstable plasmas in the context of the gauge/gravity duality. I will discuss a holographic non-conformal model of hot plasma with QCD-like properties and explain the features of a first-order phase transition near criticality. A spinodal instability of the plasma is modeled by a Gregory-Laflamme type instability in gravity. While the standard Mueller-Isreal-Stewart hydrodynamical prescription fails due to the presence of large plasma gradients I will demonstrate the necessary correction terms for the surprisingly good hydrodynamical description of the pressures. |
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