{ "id": "0812.2053", "version": "v2", "published": "2008-12-10T23:34:03.000Z", "updated": "2009-07-20T23:55:17.000Z", "title": "Horizon formation and far-from-equilibrium isotropization in supersymmetric Yang-Mills plasma", "authors": [ "Paul M. Chesler", "Laurence G. Yaffe" ], "comment": "4 pages, typos corrected, published version", "journal": "Phys.Rev.Lett.102:211601,2009", "doi": "10.1103/PhysRevLett.102.211601", "categories": [ "hep-th", "gr-qc", "hep-ph" ], "abstract": "Using gauge/gravity duality, we study the creation and evolution of anisotropic, homogeneous strongly coupled $\\mathcal N=4$ supersymmetric Yang-Mills plasma. In the dual gravitational description, this corresponds to horizon formation in a geometry driven to be anisotropic by a time-dependent change in boundary conditions.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v2", "updated": "2009-07-20T23:55:17.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "subjects": [ "11.25.Tq", "04.70.Dy", "11.10.Wx", "12.38.Mh" ], "keywords": [ "supersymmetric yang-mills plasma", "horizon formation", "far-from-equilibrium isotropization", "dual gravitational description", "gauge/gravity duality" ], "tags": [ "journal article" ], "publication": { "publisher": "APS", "journal": "Physical Review Letters", "year": 2009, "month": "May", "volume": 102, "number": 21, "pages": 211601 }, "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 4, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable", "inspire": 804951, "adsabs": "2009PhRvL.102u1601C" } } }