paper

Gravitational collapse and thermalization in the hard wall model

arXiv:1311.7560 · doi:10.1007/JHEP02(2014)120

Abstract

We study a simple example of holographic thermalization in a confining field theory: the homogeneous injection of energy in the hard wall model. Working in an amplitude expansion, we find black brane formation for sufficiently fast energy injection and a scattering wave solution for sufficiently slow injection. We comment on our expectations for more sophisticated holographic QCD models.

33 pages, 5 figures